My bank has one of those idiotic rules forcing us to change our password for online banking every 90 days. It is my opinion that their rule increases vulnerability rather than resistance to attack, but it is a situation about which I can do nothing, and I otherwise like the bank.
Larry Page, Sergey Brinn and Mark Zuckerberg became billionaires at very young ages because they created a way, through Google and Facebook, to track the moment-by-moment movements of billions of consumers online. The aggregate of this data is worth hundreds of billions of dollars to marketers, politicians, and any other group trying to sell you a product or an idea.
This week, Short Pump Town Center in Glen Allen, Virginia, a Richmond suburb, announced that it will be one of two malls in the United States that will use customers’ cell phone signals to track their movements through the mall during the holiday season.
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