On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:25:13 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 3/24/2015 4:43 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:25:32 -0400, Nancy Young
>> > wrote:
>
>>> That stuff is so wordy it's mind numbing. I signed up for the
>>> new American Express card they're offering to the Costco customers
>>> they're losing next year ... you know the terms were long and dreary.
>>> I tried to read it but I skim. All I want to see is No Fee and
>>> cash back.
>>
>> Yeah, I think I'll just ditch that card and use a Visa once the Amex
>> is dropped.
>
>Ii didn't mean to pick on Amex, all TOS are like that.
>
>When I got divorced, Amex was the only card who'd take a chance
>on me, so I've had one pretty much since. The $200 sign up bonus
>doesn't hurt.
>
>>> How many times have I seen the police get info on a suspect just
>>> by looking at their Facebook page. Hell, how many criminals get
>>> info that way.
>
>> Facebook makes a lot of money selling data from their posters to
>> advertisers..
>
>Someone's paying for that 'free' service.
>
>nancy


And I just saw this today.

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact....e-d4ae528ed502

Twitter plans to sell its data to advertisers, according to Chris
Moody, its data strategy chief. The social media site is looking to
supply its data stream to marketing specialists such as San Francisco
software firm Klout, which will repackage the data to sell to other
companies, or directly to companies, including IBM, Oracle and
Saleforce.com. Twitter would match its users to a company's database
of customers to enable targeted advertising. Moody denied any issues
with data privacy, saying "It's done in a completely anonymized
fashion, so we are not sharing private information."