Please read this through, it starts dry, but culminates into a wholesome ending. This is the worst I've ever seen it. Here are a few short snippets that state Ifttt is going to sell everything about it's users to whomever Ifttt pleases.
We may share our data, including personal information about you with our partners and joint ventures in furtherance of our business. To the extent that these entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other users.
Customer information would be one of the assets that may be transferred to or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of ifttt may continue to use your personal information indefinitely
Next time, when that interview went really well .. then you suddenly get a phone call, "Sorry, we are going to explore other candidates." Think of Ifttt!
Let's begin with the Google information collected by Ifttt. The following dialog opens -
As soon as a user clicks Grant Access, Ifttt begins a bulk download of every email ever sent from that account whether it was deleted or not. They see every contact you've ever interacted with. Your chat conversations are in their hands. The list goes on. The Internet was once a place for h0t cyber & counter-terrorist strategies.
After this, the data is indexed & searchable. It'll pull keywords and throw red flags all over you as a person. All it takes is the flicker of a monitor and Suzy Q has full search capabilities of your Gmail. I expect a majority of users can't remember if they've sent an illicit email recently. Suzy Q will also have access to algorithms that rate every private detail about you as a individual. Uh oh, red flag - even if it was a joke or bug in the software - no fortune 500 job and you're going with your 5th college. Suzy Q has even told ITT Technical Institute not to waste their time! Remember those people that have emailed you in the past on a personal level, your friends. You've done it. You've added them to the Fuck America Search Engine.
Next we'll look at Facebook. While zoned out early in the morning, I clicked accept. I'm hoping, praying, pleading, by the time I revoked the privileges they hadn't the chance to suck my whole Facebook Inbox, Videos, Wall Posts into their Fuck America search engine. I know for a fact that there's information in my private messages, I'd rather not share. I know I've been messaged information friends wouldn't like shared. I've been on Facebook since the first day UoM allowed it. Facebook's invasion reminds me of Pearl Harbor in the loosest sense, they came quick looking to Fuck America. We spoke and shared as if the Internet had the anonymity we'd grown to love, love like a cool breeze in coconut trees. Policies changed - Facebook hit us by surprise, rape scene. Pearl Harbor was a battle, countries will start waking up against this stupidity. Now take a look at what you're sharing and understand that anywhere between 10,000 - 1,000,000+ people will be able to browse this daily. Also, if you think you're being secretive & anonymous, you're not. It'll sit up next to your Internet history for the last decade
Your photos will be put into photo recognition to trickle information to further Ifttt's profile on you. In the future, Ifttt will sell this information to flight terminals, best buy's any imaginable place there is surveillance. Take the time to remember when you were anonymous. Guess what, in the Fuck America Personal History Search Engine Ifttt is aggregating, every employer will know your race, creed, heritage, financial status, height, weight, habits etc. Even if it isn't obvious, your strong and loose associations and word usage will be used to determine your worth.
Now take the time to remember all those photos from 4 years ago that Lisa S. posted while you were rolling, smoking, and too drunk to stand. She has just opted in for Ifttt. Even though you didn't opt in to share these cherished memories, Lisa S. has just added you to the Fuck America Search engine. A few of your other friends also just opted in, your life story is to be unfolded to Suzy Q. working diligently. Suzy Q recruits for companies and colleges. She is looking for upper echelon students. Of course, she needs the Fuck America Search engine. All she does is hit enter with criteria for the caliber of person desired. Your looking for work and haven't spoken to Lisa S in years (remember the old acquaintance that opted in images of you) -- Suzy Q estimates your worth from the 5 pictures in the Fuck America Search engine -- The pictures are slightly gonzo, any other person would claim it to be: pals paling around. Suzy Q and the Fuck America Search engine will not see it this way. Now, you've adjusted your life perspective and are an intelligible person. Growth - It'll happen to anybody over 4 years. The Fuck America search engine doesn't see you now that you've been gone from the (Collect information to Fuck America) websphere. You've spent these last few years studying, working out, and improving interpersonal relationships avoiding time sinks. Because of Lisa S. -- Suzy Q assumes you're burnt on crack rock wandering in an alley.
Flash forward five years -- you've finally saved enough money to visit Hawaii from your middle class job. All your buddies are dumbfounded that your tenacity hasn't brought you greater fortune. Airport security hassles you, the Fuck America Search Engine & DATA AGGREGATOR has identified you through facial recognition as a possible drug mule. Ten long hours crawl by, you've missed your flight. The airport desk administrator looks down upon you as you walk up expecting a ticket to fix this mess. She looks up, down, up, down thinking this hooligan isn't going anywhere, and clearly doesn't have the money to follow up with a lawsuit. This desk administrator thinks you're the scum of the earth and sends you packing with a security escort.
You return to your sitting position on a crummy couch in a crummy apartment. Pondering what you've always pondered the last 10 years. Why - All you've ever wanted to know was why.
Someone please slap Lisa S. -- If you've opted all your information over to Ifttt, you're Lisa.
Don't screw over your mates.
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