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        <title><![CDATA[Thank you, Professor8]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[All good points. I guess my main thought remains; at least someone finally asked users for their opinion.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:10:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[survey gaming]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Part of the problem is that the thinking of different surveyors is different.  They're going to ask different questions, in different order, and get what ssseeeeeem to be conflicting results.Is &quot;mobile device data&quot; more, less, or as secure as data on desk-tops?  Which data?  There's no constant collecting of location sitting on the desk-top device to be tapped at later convenience.  Sure, there's location data, but it's nowhere near as precise nor constantly updated.  Should such location data be stored on desk-top devices, or stored on devices to which they connect on the net?  Of course not... and yet they are.  Is location data nearly frequently updated and very precise on mobile devices?  Usually, yes.  Of course they should not be, and yet they are.  How long should phone companies keep your location?  Milliseconds.  Set up the connection, then delete.  Update it, then delete.  It shouldn't remember for longer than it takes to send/receive a few packets.For every ad you send, you've got to pay $20, and then index that for inflation, what with QEn, and I may increase my charges from time to time without notice and on an individual basis, e.g. to cope with especially obnoxious ads, maybe to charge extra for op-eds which are actually thinly disguised ads (which TR/ZD/CBS has been getting worse and worse about lately), to charge hospitals and specific employees thereof extra for exporting personal private information out of the building or out of state or out of the country or to any government officials or functionaries.Should &quot;officers&quot; or any other guberment thugs and nosies get permission before obtaining and recording in detail personal private information?  Of course, that's what the US constitution, and many state constitutions strictly require.  But corrupt judges and other government thugs usually ignore those explicit requirements for the sake of their own convenience.  They should be locked away with the rest of the general jail/prison population for a few days for each and every such violation.  Building up to the level of &quot;probable cause&quot; must be done by personal observation by multiple people, not with surveillance devices, taps, cameras, audio-recorders, etc.Should a store be able to call your phone?  Once, and with that contact should be delivered information precise enough to include the location of the calling device and connected human, that human's &quot;supervisor&quot;, the executive of the contractor in many cases, the executive in charge of the division of the firm behind the call, their home phone numbers and addresses, etc.  Should they be able to find out your phone's or similar device's number or equivalent?  Hardly ever.  Should the government be able to find out your phone or other device's number?  Hardly ever.  What's good for the government is good for the citizenry.  You want to know where we sleep, we have to know where all of you sleep.  You want to know down to the inch where each of us was born, then we should have ready access down to the inch where every government official was born (or whipped up in the lab), etc.  You want your domestic paramilitary squads to drive tanks and carry anti-tank weaponry paid for with our earnings, then we should be able to do the same.Would I allow apps to collect my contact info?  Well, one app -- my &quot;keep friends' and relatives' contact info&quot; app, whose data store should not be accessible by anyone or anything else at all.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Professor8]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:55:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks, Ed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That is one reason I like my mobile. I have an app that filters. I also have Google Voice setup giving me more options than the typical landline.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:27:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Surveys are, themselves, fraught with hardships]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I hope these surveyors didn't try to contact me and get rebuffed.  If I was less than friendly, I'm sorry.  I'd love to have participated, but I've about had it with phone calls that pretend to be surveys and then end up presenting information about a product or a candidate, issue, etc.   Our landline may go days without a call from a &quot;real&quot; person, but we'll get close to a dozen of these &quot;surveys&quot; or &quot;questions&quot; a week.  Many of them are pretty blatant attempts to get around the &quot;Do Not Call&quot; list.My current solution is to have the landline go to the answering machine after two rings, expecting that anyone who really wants to communicate with us will leave a message.Good article, Michael]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ed@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:01:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Looking into Edward Bernaise should provide an extremely interesting]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[introduction to the societal psychology of marketing both products (sales) and ideas (propaganda). Equally interesting is the list of some of his famous clients. That should help, provided I spelled his last name correctly (I just woke up)!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hippiekarl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:52:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Interesting opinion, Hacker_Jack]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You may be right, but how are you going to prove it? I see that as a problem with all surveys. Kind of like quantum theory, where measuring is enough to alter the activity.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:46:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's also called a 'Magician's Choice' in certain circles, gscratchtr...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[the mark(et) is psychologically directed to 'its choice', and has no inkling that it was led.(Do you see what I did there?) ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hippiekarl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:45:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your conclusion is wrong]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What your headline should say is that &quot;When people are asked directly the say they care about privacy&quot;.The truth is somewhat different as we all know.  It's not that most people don't care, more that most people don't ever even think about whether to care or not.  Even after being informed they rarely think about it on a regular basis.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:01:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good point, Elteto]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was in a discussion group that debated whether it was better to enlist the advice of friends via social media or research a product on the Internet (reviews and company adverts). I wonder if the unconditional acceptance of a privacy policy is the results of taking advice from non-expert friends.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:51:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Social features on mobile devices blind users to privacy issues]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I also suspect that many mobile users are not fully aware of just how much information they share. Survey respondents may incorrectly think they are effectively guarding their privacy through certain choices they make, or they may even say they are guarding their privacy to make themselves feel better after realizing--through taking the survey--that they are over-sharing. Whenever an app offers an easy and convenient social sharing function, users tend to take advantage of it before going through a lengthy thought process of just what they are agreeing to. It is sort of a virtual/social peer pressure. Everyone else is doing it, and you are not cool or up to speed if you are not participating.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elteto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:32:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I will ask, Wizard57m-cnet]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I will forward your question to the research team. And post here with the answer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:09:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I wonder what the margin of error on this survey is?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nothing scientific, but I have a feeling that a lot of people will answer a survey question differently from the way they behave in the actual circumstance.  For instance, how many of those responders that answered &quot;do not allow&quot; on the question of cell phone apps collecting your contact data have already installed apps on their phones and blindly clicked &quot;agree&quot; when presented with the question (if presented at all) to allow access to your contacts?  Many people will answer survey questions in a way that gives the impression that they are careful with their personal information, when in reality they are careless!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:41:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Interesting point, Gscratchtr]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Do you feel that an informed market would react the same?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:53:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what you're describing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[is also known as &quot;letting the market decide&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gscratchtr]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:37:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's hard not too]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I know intelligent people that listen to me, then ignore all of it. I guess everyone is doing their own risk assessment -- with can't happen to me winning most the time.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:34:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good Points]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Good Points guys.  It seems then we have a problem in that the people's expectations are that they have some privacy however the businesses do whatever they want and even though people had the expectation, they soon just go along with the crowd and give up.  It seems the only solution is more laws to change things, sigh...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig_B]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:14:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good idea, but what about your friends?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[They may have information about you on their phone.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:00:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That is a real problem, Hal]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I recently read that Google is at least now requiring that developers must design their app to give the ad networks the same permissions as the app gets. I would have thought that was a given from the start.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:59:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Highway Billboard]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you are not comfortable putting your personal information on a highway billboard, then don't put it on a device. Simple.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[da philster]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:04:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You are welcome, HippieKarl]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[History proves you right. Have you looked into the psychology behind it at all? I'm trying to find research on that aspect, as it is certainly fascinating.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:40:52 -0700</pubDate>
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