Originally Posted by GUWonder
Perhaps you need a bit more insight on what exactly they authorized, under what conditions and why?
I don't profess to be an expert in the matter. It is, though, a foreboding sign when the best hope American citizens have in regards to their privacy rights is EU law.
Originally Posted by GUWonder
Well, people volunteer to have certain information conveyed for certain limited purposes. It's not a blank check (and many companies find that out the hard way).
I don't disagree in principle, except that the "limited purpose" of marketing so frequently becomes so broad. My argument is that the limited purpose of checking to see whether government intelligence (is that an oxymoron?) indicates a terrorist threat is a far more compelling interest than an individual interest in a corporate marketing scheme--and, as such, it seems silly to support one but decry the other.
I'm not saying I'm not concerned about misuse of data, or of people being wrongly flagged--those should always be concerns. I don't think that threat is presently greater than the necessity of stopping known terrorist threats.