OT; scanned photo question

[QSIMDO]

I scanned a document into my photo file and sent it via online form for a rebate offer.
If I were to now delete that from my files would that then not be available on the receiver end?

[JRouche]

I scanned a document into my photo file and sent it via online form for a rebate offer.
If I were to now delete that from my files would that then not be available on the receiver end?

Once sent she is in the wild forever. JR

[PStechPaul]

That reminds me of a friend who bought some plans which were sent to him by email in PDF format. He was displeased with them and asked for a refund. They said they would give him his money back but only if he sent the files back to them...

Perhaps if the photos had quantum mechanical entanglement, the recipient's copy would disappear as soon as you deleted yours.

[Paul Alciatore]

Don't let these guys confuse you. If you delete it on your computer it will still be at the destination that you sent it to. Digital copies are easy and exact. And the copy(ies) will remain even if the original is completely erased.

[pinstripe]

You can contact them and ask them to delete your personal information. Reputable companies will often comply with your request, and in some jurisdictions they are legally required to do so. Most companies also have a privacy policy on their web site which may explain the process you need to follow. For example http://www.vpdcs.com/privacy-policy/

[Doozer]

The government has access to everything on your computer and every web site you have ever visited.
Freedom is an illusion of the ignorant.

-D

[rjs44032]

The government has access to everything on your computer and every web site you have ever visited.
Freedom is an illusion of the ignorant.

-D

Disagree. We still have freedom to do most legal stuff. We just don't have the privacy we used to have. We now must proceed with the notion that all our activities are being monitored. Everywhere.

Best Regards,
Bob

[OaklandGB]

If you doubt Doozer, using Google Chrome, merely do a "CTRL H". Every search you've done is listed there. You can delete these from your PC, but I seriously doubt that erases anything anywhere else, such as Google's user database. Where you go and what you look for is an extremely valuable piece of info routinely sold to marketers and others world wide.

Ever wonder what percentage of Google's $168 Billion annual revenue comes from us users paying their user fees??? ....Oh yeah, what fee, its "free".
Oh, really????

[Doozer]

Yup. Now days you got to marry a midget if you want to get some midget porn.

[JRouche]

computer and every web site you have ever visited.
Freedom is an illusion of the ignorant.
-D

That Sir is not a freedom issue. That is a privacy issue. Still just as bad JR

[darryl]

The fact that my friend can access something on my computer from afar, yet I can't from sitting right in front of it is a little disconcerting. Mind you, she is a network engineer trained by Microsoft and I'm a guy who can remember using crank phones-

I'm thinking that what we have today is a whole network of computers that are easily accessible (if you know how) unless permission is expressly denied through software of some kind, probably expensive. So I'd say yes, your computer is not private unless you take the steps to make it that way. I'd also say that even if you do the suggested 'appropriate' things, it still isn't really protected either. I think most peoples computers are vulnerable, even when they have anti-virus programs and the like. You're a sitting duck until you learn enough to implement safeguards, and then you're probably still a sitting duck.

Some years ago, computers were slow enough that you could tell when they were being accessed- these days they are so fast that you really don't know how much incursion is happening. I think a lot of it, probably the bulk of it, is related to your search history and not necessarily your data. This is obvious if you surf much- you are being targeted as a potential customer. If your data is being mined for possible exploitation- well how would you know? And how would you know that some effort you put it to block it is actually doing that job? How would you know that an update isn't putting you at risk? How do you know that the camera and mic on your monitor are actually off if you make that setting? How about your cell phone? If your anti-virus pops up and says it saved you from attacks- did it really? It may actually have exposed you. I don't trust any of it.

[JRouche]

I think most peoples computers are vulnerable, even when they have anti-virus programs and the like. You're a sitting duck until you learn enough to implement safeguards, and then you're probably still a sitting duck.

Good points.

I can tell you from days gone past, different lifetime The goal was to NOT allow the end user or its software from ever detecting an intrusion.

If there was a detect then the job was not done correctly and is scrapped, as in immediately.

When there was a clean intrusion there was usually a lil celebration that month. JR

[mickeyf]

The government has access to everything on your computer and every web site you have ever visited.

Sir Terry had some things to say about this kinda stuff:

"Dave said the government hushed it up"

"Yeah, but your mate Dave says the government always hushes things up, Nobby," said Fred.

"Well, they do".

"Except he always gets to hear about 'em, and *he* never gets hushed up" said Fred.

"I know you like to point the finger of scoff, sarge, but there's a lot goes on that we don't know about."

"Like what, exactly?" Colon retorted. "Name me one thing that's going on that you don't know about."