Blog #8 Privacy on the Internet

Privacy: What Privacy On the Internet?

My name appears on Google and so does my three blog sites too; and if I go to whitepages.com, you can see my closet neighbors names and addresses around my home and buy a complete profile on me for a small fee.  In addition, my relatives are listed (my older brother and my deceased mother).  I do not beleive that I can ever stop anyone from finding anything that they wish to obtain about me personally, because every internet site I have ever visited I have left a "cookie" (in which identifies my computer address); and the companies or websites store my information about what products I ever look at or news articles I read they store that information and sell it to other consumer-based companies.  I have purchased some books for my older mentally-challenged sister on Amazon.com; and now I am consistently being bombarded by Amazon and other online book retailers to buy similiar books that she might like.  The fastest land animal (without even looking it up) is the Cheetah.
According to the article about "Google privacy Is Alive And Well" by Forbes magazine, and written by Alma Whitten to me is a sham, and most people that use "Google" (like myself) don't know about these security feautures listed "(Google Dashboard, Ad Preferences Manager, and Data liberation Front)"; and I know I have had a Google account for several years now and I have not been notified either through email about these available privacy tools (http://forbes.com/2010/04/12/privacy-facebook-gmail-technology-security-google_p...).  In the article by Steve lohr in the New York Times "How Privacy Vanishes Online' states that even your friends and family members can inadvertently give out information about you; and it is not hard for a hacker or identity thief to use this information about you for illegal purposes (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/technology/17privacy.html?sq=facebookprivacy&st...).  I totally agree with the italian Judge that Google is responsible for exploiting a developmentally-delayed child by allowing such footage to be shown online and just because it's the internet, laws protecting the innocent should still apply.  What about online child pornoagraphy isn't it illegal?  What about The Americans With Disabilities Act?  I had an older sister who is now deceased and she was severely autistic and after reading this article inferiates me; and democracy and the long tail of distribution does not have the right to exploit this boy and they received several notices and stated they did not know (bull) because they removed the boy's film stream in just four hours!