Buying From A Local Ebay Seller

Dan - I know that you do not wear a tinfoil hat.

Unless a person is off-the-grid, privacy is pretty much a thing of the past.

Doxxing someone is incredibly easy in this day and age; including showing a overhead satellite of their house and backyard. During Zoom meetings it is easy to see the layout including door, door locks, and window locations of the interior if a home. People post their family vacation images, what they are eating, and interior phots of their houses on Facebook. Looking up a person's work location and the hours they work is easy. And cell phones can track everywhere we go. Our cars can track everywhere we go. Our computers typically track every site we visit, what we buy, and the music, video that we view. Our streaming television does the same thing.

And very soon, the technology to detect our DNA (which we constantly lose in the form of skin cells) for any physical place we visit. As soon as this is cheap enough, the marketing industry will jump on this just as much as they did with all of the above.

I have beaten the drum for a while now about who owns this kind of personal data; in my opinion the default should be that we each own this kind of data and no one else has a right to collect and use it unless we release others.
Don

Not if you use a virtual background. "He's on a beach in Hawaii!"

"I have beaten the drum for a while now about who owns this kind of personal data; in my opinion the default should be that we each own this kind of data and no one else has a right to collect and use it unless we release others."

This. Absolutely. But unfortunately will never happen.

We have a number of folks that use the canned virtual backgrounds at our local club meetings. But not for me...I practice social distancing!


Don

About thirty years ago, I used to buy British import records and CDs from a local mail order company, which was still located in someone's home at the time. I don't recall whether I inquired about a local pickup option or whether they offered that information, but they would waive the shipping charge and meet customers at the nearby train station. It was an easy walk from their place and only two miles from mine, so it worked out well.

When they eventually opened an actual brick-and-mortar store, I was its first customer.