[ExI] before?

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Apr 5, 2016, at 8:46 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Apr 5, 2016, at 7:33 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It's not just governments. Companies are at least as bad about disliking individual privacy.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dan
> 
> ​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?

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.

But what do I know?

Dan
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