Originally Posted by
DamianTV
It wouldnt benefit the government to go the whole tin foil hat route, and run around in black helicopters sticking tracking beacons up ones ass.
It does benefit companies (like you said) to track people. What do you think cookies are for? If there is a potential for abuse, than we can pretty much guarantee that someone will use it to abuse people. The BoR is limited, and I think too limited in restricting what the government is allowed to do with people. I think that clause should have been specific and prohibited involuntary tracking of people by companies, of course, I think this is one of those things that the founding fathers had absolutely no way of predicting would happen. Government cant track you, but such and such company can, and does, we wont bother with a warrant and just ask them. Or better yet, go after the stupid people that put EVERYTHING on facebook, then just go look at their facebook profile. I dont fault the government for that, I blame the people for being $#@!ing stupid.
I also dont have any objection to a company tracking its inventory to be sold, or monitor tires and their performance, if it is used in those manners. Then again, I bought a can of tuna last week, and it has a barcode on it, and just because it has a barcode and that barcode did get scanned when I checked out and paid for it, it was used for inventory management (time to order more tuna) I am not paranoid of being tracked by anyone because I have a can of tuna, because mostly I dont think there is a way to abuse that kind of data. Well, short of the grocery store tying shopping habits with specific individuals and profiling them.
Its not about paranoia, its about permission. They didnt ask my permission to track me, most companies just assume that I will volunteer this information.
I do NOT volunteer my phone number every time the idiot at the register in Best Buy insists that I give them my phone number, and I pay cash. Of course, I used to go to Best Buy when the guy behind the counter REFUSED to sell me something without my phone number. I havent been back since. it doesnt matter what the thing I bought was, it was small and stupid, and should not require me to submit some form of information they can use to track ME for their benefit WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.
If people give their permission, thats their problem, but they shouldnt be forced in to giving that information. Most of us on here use surnames, and arent dumb enough to publicly post their Social(ist) (in)Security Number on the website. Of course there are exceptions to every rule...
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