We're outraged at that. It turns out to be a piece of sleight of hand on Intel's part because they were never in control over whether the ID feature would be turned off. It's always been in the control of the OEMs PC makers.
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The Internet reduces the cost of gathering information about consumers to practically zero, ... Sending a piece of direct mail to a household costs about one dollar, so no one is going to send you 10,000 pieces of mail, but the cost of contacting you in the online world is virtually zero.Jason Catlett
There's an absence of consumer rights and a large number of small actors who are mostly criminals. Dealing with them is like swatting flies one by one, rather than putting up a fence to keep out all the dogs.
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Advertisers are already watching where people go on sites and now they're trying to get details of what is actually bought. Companies holding personal profiles should be required by law to handle the information with extreme care and only use it for the primary authorized purpose.
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I guess it would be difficult, given the appalling state of Internet privacy, for the FTC to again recommend against federal privacy law,
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A common tactic in direct mail is to disguise the nature of the solicitation and send you something that doesn't indicate what's inside, to make you open the envelope. People aren't opening the 'mystery envelopes' right now.
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