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People always think they are unique in their behaviour, but most behaviour is predictable when you gather information and behaviour patterns from millions of people around the world.

That's also why it's always a bogus argument when people are telling : I have nothing to hide. This information is useless.

To you it might seem useless but to others it can be of great value and especially when combined with other information. It's also what feeds most of the Social Engineering.

Great article!

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

You're spot on @thetimminator! We're super predictable! Following you now.

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detlev (73) · 7 years ago

Great article. You get my help by my 💯 % upvote and my resteem. Let's stay in contact and may schedule a beer with my next berlin visit.

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thanks @detlev! I'm following you also. Let me know when you're in Berlin. I'm in Bangkok at the moment, but planning to be back late November.

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anonimnotoriu (56) · 7 years ago

Anrike, check out this documentary if you haven't already seen it.

In today's world the most common form of power is having spy data on somebody else. And it's a very strange form of power, it's different than earlier historical forms of power. Power has usually meant the threat of violence, what happens when you say, well "ultimately if you don't do this, I'll hurt you". And it might be indirect, it might be complex, but that's how it works.

The new kind of power is different, it's a very gradual form of power. Somebody saying "hey, you can do what you want, but I am micro-managing options so very gradually I'm steering you to what I want; I'm very gradually influencing the financial decisions you make, the commercial decisions you make, the education decisions you make, all kinds of things, so very gradually I'm changing the world so I make myself richer and more powerful. So, it's a new kind of power that's very sneaky and gradual.

But, the thing about gradual power is it compounds, like compound interest. If somebody can use spy data about you to just change your decisions, to give me .1% advantage every year, it accumulates until suddenly I'm very rich and you're very poor. So, that's the new kind of power. It's very subtle and that's what it makes it so important that we understand it and why it's so important that we change it.

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Yeah! That's the same documentary I refer to in my post, but in English. Thanks for sharing!!

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dricko (26) · 7 years ago

Great Article. Follow me back

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thanks and done!

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anahowa210 (45) · 7 years ago

the simplest example: when you enter your Facebook profile, the company will immediately ask questions ( to complete you social profile), like survey but in a smart way, the company collect huge amount of free data about their customers & sell to the biggest production company's in order t define people needs & create successful product base on measure got it from analysing those data.

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Yes, they want to know more about you and try to keep you on the app as long as possible. Luckily, there are some things we can do to contain this a little bit. More about that soon.

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anahowa210 (45) · 7 years ago (edited)

don't keep us waiting to see your suggestions in order to protect our info from that kind of légal data ripe.

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the encouragement @anahowa210. As soon as I have some time, I'll write it!

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supriya1993 (54) · 7 years ago

Good article.... Just upvoted @anrikevisser...

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thanks @supriya1993, I see you studied Computer Application. Was Big Data part of the studies?

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razack-pulo (67) · 7 years ago

It's modern life indeed. We must get used to it, and to follow the development of technology and the way of advertising..

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Hi @razack-pulo, time and development won't stand still indeed. But I do think we should think about what's happening. We don't have to blindly accept data brokers selling lists of rape sufferers for example. That's just inhumane.

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belalh (40) · 7 years ago

Great article

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thank you so much @belalh!

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hamzayousaf (66) · 7 years ago

nice dear great shareing :)

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the support, follow back :)

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egzonagaj (41) · 7 years ago

Good

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks! @egzonagaj

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iamfranklinn (46) · 7 years ago

Great post @anrikevisser Followed and upvoted.

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thank you, following you too!

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philip.willemse (52) · 7 years ago

This is such an informative post @anrikevisser . Thanks so much for sharing this with us. The problem is that the consumer is completely oblivious as to the worth of their digital fingerprint and thus will sign up to anything...login to any "Free Wi-Fi" Service etc. and they don't know the value behind data mining taking place....

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Agreed! That's why I write about it :) Thanks for the support @philip.willemse

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piyushkansal (59) · 7 years ago

nice post upvoted
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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thanks! Follow you too @piyushkansal

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piyushkansal (59) · 7 years ago

thanks

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clemdane (52) · 7 years ago

This is one of those things I vaguely worry about in the back of my mind, but then I decide there's nothing I can do about it. I wonder what they are saying about me, thinking about me?

I get some very strange ads on Youtube and online that follow me and I have no interest in them. I wonder what sort of profile they used to decide those were the ads they would show me.

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Yeah, they are not always spot on! I check the other day what Facebook things I like and there were some weird suggestions in there. I'll share in my next article how to check this yourself. Thanks for the support @clemdane!

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clemdane (52) · 7 years ago

Thank you!

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jackmiller (66) · 7 years ago

Just taking this opportunity to say "THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING ME"

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hasantha (42) · 7 years ago

Use full article , thank you....!

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anrikevisser (44) · 7 years ago

Thank you @hasantha!

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Extremely important topic. Thank you!

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Useful explanation.... great article.

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Thank you for the kind words

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