<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Apr 5, 2016, at 8:46 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div>On Apr 5, 2016, at 7:33 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">It's not just governments. Companies are at least as bad about </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">disliking individual privacy.</span><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">And do you know why? I'll bet it's loss. The last time I looked, employee theft was number one the chart of company losses.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I think it's more about increasing revenue by collecting more information on actual and potential customers. Of course, internally, there's employee theft, but lowering that doesn't really increase revenue, no?</div><br><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span class=""><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"></span></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As for finance and economics, I am the least of the least. But I think that if you have more goods to sell that were already paid for and that your employees did not steal, you'd make more money, but what do I know?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>My point: I'm not say firms are utterly unconcerned about employee theft, but I don't think that's the main driver behind collecting information about customers, especially information that most people might think violates privacy. Let me put this way: if you decide to work for a firm, you kind of expect them to not want you to steal from them, right? But if you're a customer, you don't normally expect them to collect all sorts of data on you, some of which you'd prefer to keep private.</div><div><br></div><div>But what do I know?</div><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div></div></body></html>