Decided to subscribe too, longz ... after discussions, and an experiment ... major concern was collection of personal information, well it works like this -
Your credit card info goes straight to a third party, SI never has it at any point [according to mgmt], and is fairly low risk [according to lawyer friend]
A disposable email address works for the receipt ... three times over, in 'my' case, i hear
On none other of the 'mandatory fields' you have to fill out, that presumably are collected and stored in the SI system, is there anywhere you have to state that 'I John Q Doakes do solemnly swear and affirm that all data herein is identical to that which appears on the driving license held by fingers doing this typing, by Belenos'
... if'n y'all know what ah mean ...
The amount of money is paltry, couple hundred US, you'd hope that many will have passed more to Wikipedia if they use that site ... for me and likely many more it's the information, that gets collected and stored and then falls into who knows whose hands for who knows what purpose ... but not all info dissemination is scarey, some quite widespread already, and unlikely to be damaging, for instance and for those stuck for a choice, Santa's postal code is apparently H0H 0H0 |
