Comments on: Public VS. Private in the Virtual World http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/08/28/public-vs-private-in-the-virtual-world/ Behind the Scenes at Ilium Software Tue, 21 May 2013 16:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andy Morales http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/08/28/public-vs-private-in-the-virtual-world/comment-page-1/#comment-35307 Andy Morales Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:29:24 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=1525#comment-35307 “Just because we’ll accept data tracking on a website, doesn’t mean we’re okay with it in our favorite piece of software.”

I’m not a software developer but I would agree with you on this and possibly try to understand this a bit more. I notice that with many of my Microsoft products they are always giving me pop ups saying that they want permission to send data to them. Mostly on errors, what it is sending I’m never really sure. It lets you see the technical problem before it is sent though.

Some programs don’t even ask and I get firewall warnings about whether I trust the program and whether to let data be sent. That’s confusing!! I’m not even sure what it is sending about me. So is it safe to do my banking on the same computer that runs all these programs that want to send info. Not sure anymore. But what choice do I have? I can’t go and buy an extra computer to do banking on and never use it for anything else…what a waste of money.

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