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The less of my public information thats out on the internet the happier I am. Just saying. How far will it go? I saw I could sign up for tracking notifcations but thought about for 5 seconds and declined. I have a suspicious mind. I don't know why but I get alarmed when someone sends things W/O signature confrmation.
the most recently item I got thrown on my porch was a 1700.00 GPS for my boat. Yesterday. But I can remember getting a 4,000.00 shipment left on my porch from the USmint left by UPS. I would rather check shipping tracking numbers for important things myself.
How many people are ripping off packages already?

 

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Their system is already online whether or not you have things emailed to you by them. Notice how you sign for things with their electronic pads now, and they have handheld scanners ect.

 

Pretty sure they only do this with first class mail.

 

...my last package from the Mint was the Mercury dime commemorative and I had to sign for delivery... How do I need to sign for a $400 package, but you don't need to sign for a $4k package?

and Yes, Big Brother is watching. He is finding out all sorts of useful information.. like I read Time magazine, look at a lot of coin photos and read tons of somewhat trivial information. In my opinion, our nation's data collection program is a huge waste of money. It creates huge amounts of information which is absolutely useless because of the volume and time it would take sort and extract.

For example: The Boston Marathon bomber (the boxer not the kid) was literally on extremist forums asking people how to achieve his goals. The NSA never extracted that data.

 

There's more to it than that for that issue but that gets far to political. But yes you are right programs are sorting more data in an hour than most people process in a life time.

 

My mailbox is about two miles from my house - now I can be notified when something of interest comes in - otherwise, I only go to the mailbox two or three times a week.

 

I wonder how many bullion companies keep their records secure and confidential? "Gee Mr. Apocalypse , our records show you bought/sold $10,500 worth of gold, with no tax charged or gains/losses reported on your return"

 

Regarding data collection - the amount of data that can be stored looks like it can expand without limit - as fast as we produce and gather it. Ask yourself, what is the worst thing that could happen if my information X is seen by Y. If you can conceive a problem, then you need to somehow not allow X to be seen by Y. If the information is online, or on a hard drive connected to the internet you may end up with a problem.

 

Tax evasion is a crime, beware!

 

I don't use a virus scanner anymore... I just go to google, search hot key words and let the NSA sort it out. I figure I'm just using a service funded by my tax dollars.

On a more serious note, this used to be a huge concern of mine. Until the Snowden leaks most of my family and friends dismissed this crap as completely unbelievable. Then I got to say, "told ya so". I've decided it's something I can't do anything about, it doesn't really effect me and it's not worth the time worrying about. Instead, I congratulate the United States Government for having the largest collection of cat pictures and pornography in history.

 

This is certainly possible, but some institutions do have an aggressive policy of deleting backups once they've served their purpose - precisely because they know a subpoena requiring a search through a vast accumulation of data would be expensive.

 

Best practices in financial institutions require deletion of data no longer required to comply with regulatory requirements.

 

Simply deleting data, it can still be recovered. Deletion ect just limits the number of people that can get it.

 

Not if it is properly managed by the institution holding the data.

 

If it was digital it can be recovered unless it was never connected to the internet and the storage was incinerated.

 

Best practices for any financial institution would not allow any external access to images with sensitive data. That includes "internet" access to any data repository. Personally identifiable data is confidential and requires adequate controls.

 

This is absolutely true. In the movies.

 

If a big financial institution's internal email was "connected to the internet", they've got a much, much larger problem than dealing with audits.

That kind of flub makes international news, and moves markets.

 

Wouldn't be the first time

 

Trust me, institutions delete their data more thoroughly than just "drag to trash".

Also, while more data can sometimes be recovered if you're willing to work at it, there's a difference between "run a disk recovery program to undelete files" and "spend $10 million out of the black budget to go over a hard disk atom by atom with a scanning AFM".

Forensic IT people hate the new SSDs, because when you erase things the right way from one of those, there is nothing they can do to recover it.