On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 07:41:24 +1100, Bruce >
wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:23:07 -0400, wrote:
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>>On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:53:45 +1100, Bruce >
>>wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 07:54:22 -0400, wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:57:30 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:47:13 -0400, wrote:
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>>>>>>Not at all, if someone couldn't figure out what you had to give up to
>>>>>>use Fools Book, then they were in exactly the right place!
>>>>>
>>>>>OMG, did I give something up? And I don't even know what it is? I
>>>>>guess I don't really miss it, whatever it is.
>>>>
>>>>Unfortunately that attitude, along with the old saw 'If you're not
>>>>doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear' has brought us to these
>>>>days where very little is private anymore.
>>>
>>>Anything I consider private, I don't tell Facebook. Can you give a
>>>concrete example of what I have to fear?
>>
>>I can't think where I would start and you must have read all that I
>>have read and heard Zuckerberg try and brush off with little success.
>>Google it and I am sure even google will say something.
>>
>>There was an interesting example this past week on our programme
>>Marketplace about what happens when you click on apps and do not
>>entirely read the small print
>>
>>http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/ can be found on that page.
>
>I don't use apps. But if I did, what would that app find out about me
>that would bother me? I'm not saying people shouldn't be careful
>online, but I also don't know exactly what I have to fear. I put a
>sticker on my laptop's camera and I disabled the mic in Windows.
>Credit card data could be an issue, I guess.

I have done so too but Marketplace made the subject very interesting.
Too long to get into but if you watch it is a great demo of just what
'watchers' can do. The problem is who are the watchers and why and
what are they watching?