Privacy and Pizza

by Liberty and Power

This ACLU ad is very clever. Funny/scary. Here's the link: ACLU Pizza Ad

Hat tip: Dr. Terry Maratos-Flier

More Comments:

Max Swing - 2/4/2005

aeh... yes, horizontal conglomerations are rarely seen.... say, they are!

I'd say that perhaps Pizza Giant might be Microsoft and you have installed WinXP. When you surf on the internet, the Windows System collects the pages you visited and the length (the links you clicked and so on) and then sends this silently to the Master Server. They then can perfectly use this information to give you appropriate programs....

Another example would be the German bank-secrecy exception. There is a company that gets all the financial data from all banks about every one of their customers. Of course, they proclaim not to distribute those datas except of cases that force the issue.
Now, other banks or companies that have to deal with this persons get in touch with this organisation and ask for the financial data in order to know the credibility. However, there will also be a transmission back and forth of private information. So, that the Schufa can provide to the next customer even more information.

This may not be as scarry as the Pizza Giant, but it is only the beginning.
To see alliances like the "PAY BACK"-Card emerge from the cooperation of several enterprises of different genres, is for me a simple indicatore that more and more personal informations are going to be shared between the big companies.

Jonathan Dresner - 2/3/2005

Nah... unless Pizza Giant is owned by the same company that owns Travel Giant... and libraries are privatized... and Media Giant publishes the magazine.... and they're all owned by the same holding company... never happen.

Right?