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Are You Aware That You’re An Information Prostitute?
Every day you sell off a little bit, of you.
Everyday, without giving it a moments thought, your wishes, dreams, desires and countless other tidbits of information about you that makes you you, you prostitute for the use of an app.
The world in which we live now, a place where personal information is more valuable than gold, it is all but inevitable. Perhaps you do what you can to avoid this robbery of yourself, such as not performing searches with Google or Yahoo, but instead using the private search company DuckDuckGo, which collects Nothing about your searches, Nothing.
One can diligently go through their Privacy settings on Facebook, HA I just made a joke, putting the words Privacy and Facebook in the same sentence. That’s an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
One can also read the privacy statements as they install the latest apps on their phones. Though asking people to take a moment and read something nowadays is stretching it, and I will admit, reading one of those privacy policies is akin to reading a foreign language, and they are so damn long and confusing, leaving your head spinning in a daze.
Defeated, we just usually give up, and tap the Accept Icon.
