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The guys discuss how companies use the data they collect and answer, "How can I make sure my employees don't steal my proprietary info after they leave?" Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: This is Legally Sound Smart Business. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: My name is Matt Staub. NASIR: Wait. I know. You don’t have to say my name. I said my name and then you can just say, “This is…” MATT: I guess there’s never been an episode intro… well, there was one when you missed, but every single episode starts off with you and me. So, at this point, it’s not like it’s a rotating group of podcast hosts. NASIR: Yeah, and we’ve talked about this before, even in our standard intro, it uses our names. So, when we introduce ourselves, it’s kind of redundant but that’s how we do it! MATT: Name repetition is how it’s done. NASIR: All right, let’s get into our creepy story of the week. MATT: It talks about creepy. I guess it kind of is but it’s more about a lot of businesses collect data from their customers and it’s talking about what these businesses do with the data and this is how it gets into the creepy part is when people think this is creepy. I’m sure a lot of people know that businesses sometimes collect data, they sometimes sell it to third parties for whatever reason. This is all stuff they need to inform. So, if you go to a website and click down on the privacy policy or the terms of use, this is where you find all that stuff. I’m sure 98 percent of people do read these. NASIR: Yeah. MATT: I know, before, every website I go to, I make sure to read all this just to make sure that everything is covered. It’s actually funny how many websites you’ll click on that because I actually click on them just to see. NASIR: Sure. I do, too. Yeah. MATT: It’s kind of surprising how many are nonexistent. It’s just there, but it links to nothing. NASIR: Exactly. MATT: Or they’ll have some kind of boiler plate that doesn’t even make sense. Like, there’s other companies’ names in it and it doesn’t even apply. I’ve seen that many, many times. When you launch a website, it’s sometimes the last thing you think of. MATT: Yeah. NASIR: But, you know what, I really do think that, if people really knew how much they could track – and I think people that are tech-savvy already know but I think some of the common users would be a little creeped out by it because what’s hard to understand too is that there’s a lot of companies that, when they buy into ad networks on their site, that they can track you from one site to another. It’s not just on the same site, too. For example, Facebook is a good example. When people put in their Facebook plug-ins into their sites and so forth – I don’t know if they still do this, I know they used to – even if you go to a blog that’s totally unrelated to Facebook, they can tell that you’ve been to that. I even read a story this week where it seems a little goofy to me but someone that’s basically turned themselves off against Google and I think she’s some kind of journalist and she was trying to prevent anyone on the internet – meaning Google or Facebook – knowing that she was pregnant. And so, she had to tell all her friends and so forth and she tells her experience of how difficult it was to make sure that no one would mention that she was having a baby because, you know – I think we’ve been through this, too – when I was getting engaged, I saw ads for rings for the longest time – like, months afterwards, right? You had the same experience. MATT: Yeah, we were talking about that. NASIR: That’s creepy, right? MATT: Yeah. I mean, a quick tangent on that, I got an email – this was a year and a half after I’d been married, let alone about the engagement ring – I got something about deals on engagement rings. I’m like, “What do you assume – I’ve already gotten divorced and found another person I want to marry?” It’s just kind of weird how that stuff works out. NASIR: Yeah,