Tag: Privacy

Copy Machine Chaos?

You'd Never Suspect This
You'd Never Suspect This

Here’s one more thing to consider in our efforts to fight identity theft. A Canadian friend sent this to me and you ought to consider viewing this video because it will help you understand that company copy machines contain hard drives.

It costs about $500 to upgrade a copier with software that either encrypts the data or erases it. Most organizations won’t spend this kind of dough. Imagine medical, insurance, financial organizations. Imagine social security numbers, addresses, critical information about your accounts.

The video shows the undercover results, and closes with the punch line – a shipment of used copiers is headed to two overseas countries.

Privacy Is A Myth

Pick one that still has potential to live on in society:

  • Privacy
  • Confidentiality

Privacy is dead.  It’s done.  Toast.  History.

Social media has insured that nothing is private anymore.  It’s no secret who you are and what you do – unless it’s hardly worth noticing.

Our only hope?  Confidentiality.  Otherwise known as trust with the spoken word.

Only fools still believe in privacy.  Businesses grapple with and “pray” about this everyday. Much the way the Music Industry grappled and prayed that Napster would go away.

It didn’t.  Thank you Napster.  And, iTunes.

Still skeptical?  Social media is here to stay, has overtaken pornography as the number one Internet activity, and as if that weren’t enough, enter You Tube: