So this weekend I was home at my parents house and I was talking to my mom about her email account. She was having some problems with attachements and I was helping show her how to send pictures and such when she asked me why shes been gets all these emails asking her to sign of for assorted pornography sites. I told her it was most likely because of websites she has joined selling her e-mail to sites who send such information in emails. She replied, "Well thats not very friendly". This got me thinking about the fact that these websites that we trust are selling us out for a few extra bucks. And yet its not really looked at as a crime or an invasion of privacy. Would we accept banks selling our account numbers and atm pin codes. Of Course not. We put trust in these websites and give our email adresses and personal information out all the time. It turns out my mom had just recently joined an online book club. She was surprised to find out that it was probably this action that resulted in her recieving all these emails. Maybe someday websites will choose to have the same integrity as a Bank and keep true to their privacy statements and promises.
