May 18, 2012

For Sale: Information of sites you visit and how much time you spend there

Four days ago, I visited a website which was selling software of legal cases for lawyers. I spent about 10 minutes on site. I looked up directors's bio data. They were highly high-tech in web technology and were spending 20 hours a day for advancement of company.

I closed the site and forgot about it. Two days thereafter, salesman from the software company came. Since, I was already interested, it was easy to sell for him. He sold and went away.


POINT


There are web tools, which tell you who is visiting a particular site, how many times, how much time he spent there, his buying habits, his interests etc. If you will search for word "Analytics" on Google or on Iphone application store, you will get these application.

Commercial people are using it already.

Forget about censorship. Everything you do on net is transparent and visible. There is nothing like privacy once you click on any link.

Even when you click on a link found on a blog, someone is buying that information.

If you tweet, there are software which can tell you how many people clicked on your tweet, and at what time of day or night. You can then tweet more at such times! All information about your net activity is available for sale for monthly 5$ to 99$. 

Haresh Raichura
18th May,2012