How much is your personal data worth to you? Would you ever sell it? New Yorkers have spoken and this is how much they'd have to be paid to hand over their data.
This past Thursday, Krebs on Security reported that Facebook had as many 600 million users passwords stored in plain text. What does this mean? Well, any of Facebook's employees could have looked up that information. Yikes.
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 stipulated that medical costs be made public, but the new federal rule goes a step further and requires that this information to be posted online, allowing easy access to patients to know what to expect.
We want to believe that mankind is heading in the right direction, and some stories and posts make us feel that way. This is not one of those moments...