Tuesday, April 4, 2017

I See What You Did There... and I Sold It

So, Congress just passed a bill allowing internet service providers to sell information they collect from their consumers to compete with telecom companies. Well, congratulations to the ISPs, my condolences to anyone who uses the internet. We might as well get rid of the incognito window in Chrome, the only thing that saves us from is the extra two seconds it takes to delete a search from our history. Even then, it still exists and somebody out there knows.
How much money is your sanity worth? Now, there will be people out there that you don't even know, buying information about you that you didn't even know existed, and use it to turn a profit. Nothing is sacred anymore. Everything is about money, it's like we're human trafficking without the humans. Are we even human anymore? Who does this benefit other than big business?
When will we stop? We all complain about privacy but when it comes to the people that matter, they are willing to sell everything for a few extra dollars. It's like the whole world is a a market and the consumers are the goods. I don't remember becoming an item for sale.