What We Know About You: Welcome to the Surveillance State

Issue 152, March 21, 2024

We recently read a report in The Wall Street Journal that got our attention.  Commercial data brokers are selling their third-party data to the government. If you’re an optimist, you would think this could be a good thing. Our intelligence agencies and the defense department may be able to identify patterns that could predict and prevent an unfortunate event – terrorism, for example.  But honestly, how would you feel if all the conversations in your house that Siri and Alexa are silently listening in on are sold in the aggregate to the government…or something else?

Data Driven

The report harkens to the need for awareness of hidden risks for organizations that become data-oriented to increase their effectiveness and build relationships with current and prospective customers. Getting to know one’s customers and those that comprise the market is a downright necessity today. We are likely one of the loudest preachers of that point in context of organizational transf…