This includes selling your data to data brokers, who in turn connect it to your legal name and identifying information (if that hasn’t already been done along the way) and repackage it for sale to others.

Those others include your current employer and prospective employer, credit bureaus, mortgage lenders, and others, whose goal is not to sell you stuff you don’t need, but to impose their will upon you in various other ways such as by denying you employment, credit, and a place to live.

In other words, we have seen the creation of an unregulated private-sector Stasi, and the predictable result of producing a “watch what you say” culture.

You’re not just the product. You’re the prey.

ok. MySpace sux.

I shall refrain from stating the well known error in reasoning to which both service providers have succumbed because I have no wish to encourage their business tactics.