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The fine print (bottom of image): "Nationwide has made a financial contribution to this organization in return for the opportunity to market products and services to its members."
I, like many others pay, for my AMA membership, it not a free service. Where do they get off selling my personal info?
I, like many others pay, for my AMA membership, it not a free service. Where do they get off selling my personal info?
Your bank, credit card, hotel membership, car rental, electric company, airline miles membership, car loan, home loan, gym membership, telephone company, magazine subscriptions, Amazon, facebook, iphone, google, etc etc etc, are all selling your shit.
The GOV has created thru law a system that puts regular peps are a severe disadvantage by allowing companies to put out huge legal documents that are frequently written in legalese that is impossible to understand. Yet we click yes/sign up to what ever, agreeing to who knows what.
The Shop
One hit for a mortgage refi and I get bombed with 10 loan officers all over the country wanting me to refinance.
it's all covered in the South Park ass to mouth episode.
I get the notion of selling data when you offer a free service. But selling my data when I pay for your service, c'mon now.
Either they raise the fees a and charge you, or they charge someone else like selling data that is of zero real concern for you.
You pay for tv subscriptions, but still get adds in most stuff. There is a business case to be made somewhere.
You should consider yourself lucky as I have just received something similar from the french one about some personal attributes enlargement.
just kidding, #trythethrottle
How do we use your personal information?
Our primary purpose in using personal information we collect is to provide service for your AMA membership and provide you with products and services you request, such as gift shop purchases, e-mail newsletters, and access to members-only content on our Web site.
On occasion, if you instruct us to, we may also use your membership information to send you information about special offers, benefits and services provided by the AMA and its affiliates. If you do not wish to receive this information, please let us know by calling us at (800) AMA-JOIN, e-mailing us at ama@ama-cycle.org or writing to us at 13515 Yarmouth Dr., Pickerington, OH, 43147.
From time to time, if you instruct us to, we make our membership list available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by calling us at (800) AMA-JOIN, e-mailing us at ama@ama-cycle.org or writing to us at 13515 Yarmouth Dr., Pickerington, OH, 43147.
Pit Row
Does everyone realize your voices will be duplicated soon by bots to the point it will be indistinguishable over a phone conversation? Try to comprehend what kind of crazy stuff we'll be dealing with soon when this starts happening:
Bot calls Mom:
"Mom, I need you to wire me some money. I don't have time to go into detail right now but I lost my walled and need you to wire 5K to this company I'm hiring to do some work for me"
Bot calls Dad:
"Dad, I lost my house key today so can you leave the sliding door open on your way to work in the morning? I'll be home around 8am after you leave"
For those who don't understand or can't comprehend, everything you see or hear will be fake and you won't know what is real, what is a bot, and what is a crook talking with your synthesized voice to scam or steal...it's going to get ugly.
A comparison is that you in today's time would send your mother a letter asking her to put 100 bucks in an envelope and send back to an address she is not familiar with but has your name on it...
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?division=3.&part=4.&lawCode=CIV&title=1.81.5.
Unclear whether it would govern the AMA as it does not apply to nonprofits, yet. It is alike but not identical to the GDPR in the EU. I think the count is 15-16 other states with legislation akin to the new California law. At some point expect a federal law in order to create some uniformity across states.
There are also existing privacy notice laws that require websites to publish a privacy policy that describes data collection and sharing. California's existing privacy notice law also requires information on how the website treats do not track instructions from a user.
I'm just scratching the surface here with everything else that we'll be faced with soon.
Make the following changes in your account if you haven't
Phone section and "edit"
Email section and "edit"
30 years ago you would hand out your pin code and card number to anyone calling saying it was from the bank. 20 years ago you would use it on any website that had a eshop storing the info in clear text in a database.
People used to give their credit card to people using a manual machine to transfer your card information to a piece of paper. Today you wont.
The world did not collapse.
My point is, you can already today fake identity over multiple mediums that you could describe as catastrophic if someone would try and scale it.
We learn, and adapt.
Very interesting with all your experience you don't see AI as a growing threat. We're not just talking about identity theft here. Like I said that is a tiny piece of it all and it's barley scratching the surface.
AI will learn and adapt, much faster than humans.
To each his own.
calls from banks and so on. They where all considered major threats at one point. Same with social media or messenger accounts theft.
Today less and less consider a analog (well digital) phone line a trusted communication channel, not even elderly people.
For a digital scam or identity theft to be successful it requires scale. First capturing a specific voice (or beat case emulating one) and then finding a target that not only will trust based on voice but also give away crucial info or transfer funds without suspicion raised is not scaleable.
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