Invasion of privacy -- (Denver, Vail: for sale, credit card, transfer)

[proveick]

The last thing I want is to have my activites or whereabouts tracked while skiing. This is ridiculous.
Ski-pass tracking: Is it Big Brother on the slopes, or a fun Facebook app? - The Denver Post
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[jazzlover]

Don't want to be tracked, don't ski. Pretty simple. It's not like it's an essential-to-life activity. I'd be more worried about the grocery chain using their discount cards to track what I buy to eat.

[movementarian]

Yeah, I don't want Vail knowing how bad a skier I am. And I don't want King Soopers knowing how many sleeves of fig newtons I eat in a week.

[CosmicWizard]

movementarian wrote:

Yeah, I don't want Vail knowing how bad a skier I am. And I don't want King Soopers knowing how many sleeves of fig newtons I eat in a week.

Don't sweat the samll stuff. Compared to Big brother, Vail is a small time operator. Big brother probably has these idiosynchrocies of yours coded into the Big Brother database...and many more too. Big brother is likely to know what brand of underwear we wear, which pair we are wearing today, how many times we've worn that particular pair previously, and wether or not they have any stains on them.

[Idunn]

"Federal trade regulators for years have been tracking the spread of radio-frequency technology, which increasingly is embedded in credit cards, passports, items for sale in malls and experimental driver's licenses. But the government has not set limits."
- from the 'Denver Post'


Younger generations are said not to have the same concerns with privacy as their forebears, which would be helpful, as retaining it is increasingly difficult. They might enjoy devoting as much attention to Facebook as actually skiing when on the mountain, which, from their perspective, would prove one of the positives in this development of RF technology within the ski industry. For those concerned with being tracked, as mentioned in this article, there are viable workarounds, for now.

However, people being what they are, one might question just how long the corporations who own these resorts will be able to resist the temptation to combine this acquired data with personal information, the names, phone numbers, addresses, and credit-card numbers of their customers. My guess is that they effectively will not for very long. That at first it will be an opt-in offer with perceived benefits in disclosing such information, then more the norm, and later something difficult to opt-out of or avoid.

If one might at last decide simply not to ski, that but one facet of this far larger movement. The expectation and reality of less individual privacy is a topic for another post. As far as RF tags are concerned, they are increasingly everywhere. Quite small, nearly invisible, or when incorporated in design precisely so. They can be self-powered, although more usually derive necessary energy from the signals through which their data is transferred. They are miniature computers, with the ability to do far more than merely note their wearers geographic location.

It is not so much the technology, which can have many beneficial uses as well, but how it is applied, or misused. That is determined by people, more exactly those they have allowed control over them. So look to your neighbor, your government and society, and reflect one how metaphysically advanced they are or not. Then yourself, in which all begins.

[Ziasforever]

Originally Posted by jazzlover

Don't want to be tracked, don't ski. Pretty simple. It's not like it's an essential-to-life activity. I'd be more worried about the grocery chain using their discount cards to track what I buy to eat.

I'm screwed. I buy too much red meat, butter and beer. Monsanto meat that is....

[chilicheesefries]

Originally Posted by movementarian

Yeah, I don't want Vail knowing how bad a skier I am. And I don't want King Soopers knowing how many sleeves of fig newtons I eat in a week.

With the Sooper Cards I have noticed that you can just ask for a new one and then never turn in our info or put down a bogus address and you'll still get the discounts. I'm not sure you can still do this but in the past I've had an 'extra' card in case I forget mine and it has no info attached to it.

[CosmicWizard]

Ziasforever wrote:

Monsanto meat that is....

That stuff is probably radioactive and easy to track!

[Ziasforever]

Originally Posted by CosmicWizard

Ziasforever wrote:

Monsanto meat that is....

That stuff is probably radioactive and easy to track!

All I can say is my teeth have never been whiter! Don't know why they're falling out though.

[DOUBLE H]

Originally Posted by jazzlover

Don't want to be tracked, don't ski. Pretty simple. It's not like it's an essential-to-life activity. I'd be more worried about the grocery chain using their discount cards to track what I buy to eat.

Jazzlover and Cosmic are right. I've been getting quite an education lately regarding these information data systems. Pretty creepy if you ask me. But I understand where Proveick is coming from, I do.