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I’ve often said on the old blog that the Internet never forgets. At the New Scientist site they remind us today that there is money in that information of yours.

Databases know more about you than you realise. A Carnegie Mellon University study recently showed that simply by knowing gender, birth date and postal zip code, 87% of people in the United States could be pinpointed by name.

Websites can collect huge amounts of data from users. Retailers, for example, can track our every click, what we buy, how much we spend, which advertisements we see – even which ones we linger over with our mouse.

Sites can easily access your entire web browser history.

Just remember when you see the Internet the Internet sees you.

Btw can someone explain to me how the word “blog” shows up as a misspelled word in the spell checker?