As Far As I Can Tell

Invasions of privacy

I don’t know why the change, but telemarketers are now starting to leave message on my answering machine; three of them have already today.

Coming home to a machine and and inbox full of spam is insane.

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On a similar note, go get the free program Ad-aware and run it regularly on your computer. It’s a program for tracking down advertising related registry entries, cookies, and programs. These sorts of settings and programs are almost always added without permission, and without you knowing about it. They do things such as send personal information about you to third parties, overlay existing advertisements on websites, create pop-up ads while using a site that doesn’t have ads, etc.

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# October 14, 2002 02:03 PM


 

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That is one of the benefits of cellular phones… NO “COURTESY” CALLS. Although I do get quite a lot of wrong number calls. e.

Posted by: Eric on October 15, 2002 5:10 PM

As far as who can tell?


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