Yay for Protecting Your Privacy!

[duscha]

Hey all, this is quenya -- I dropped the other journal. Anyway, I write a weekly column for our school newspaper - The Daily Aztec at San Diego State - so I usually post it here for your criticism/praise/corrections. Thanks! And let's get some more submissions in here

Comments

[hologram]

I totally agree with you. It really gets to me when I go into a store and they ask for a phone number or zip code. The worst is all those lil plastic cards you need to uyse in every single store to get the sales. I think that is such a load of crap. People really should not allow it because they use your information that you fill in to get the cards to monitor what you buy and sell the information to advertisers. Why should you have to be part of something they are gonna make millions off of to get 10 cents off a can of beans?

As for condescending... I guess I can see where people might think that although I dont feel that it is.

This paragraph in particular could be seen that way:
Every single day, we willingly give up our personal information without questioning who’s using it or why. Most of us are either ignorant or apathetic - or, perhaps, a bit of both. Most of us don’t know that we don’t always have to subject ourselves to privacy invasion. Those of us that do know this don’t see anything wrong with this invasion of privacy