Topic 3: "Have you paid enough attention to the number of junk mail, telephone calls during dinner, and junk emails you have been getting? If so, you may have thought about who has your name on a list and what they're doing with it. In recent years, telemarketers have been having a field day as technological advances have replaced the door-to-door salesman. Many companies you have done business with may have sold or shared your personal information to other companies, and tracing the source may be difficult. In many cases, we do not preserve our privacy as we defined privacy earlier. We have helped information seekers like companies in gathering and data-basing nformation from us. We do every time we apply for discount cards from grocery stores, gas stations, and merchandise stores, and every time we fill out information on little cards to enter contests, and every time we give out our Social Security number and telephone numbers to store clerks in department stores. The information they collect from us is put into databases and is later sold to the highest bidder, usually a marketer. nformation gathering is a very serious business that is increasingly involving a growing number of