After a 3-day bout with the immigrations of Colombia and Venezuela, dealing with government corruption and an obvious “Gringo Tax” of $700, I am finally in Caracas, Venezuela.
It ultimately was my fault. When we arrived in Colombia, we asked everyone where to get our passport stamped. We even asked the police. Everyone said, “You don’t need it stamped for Colombia.” I figured it was the same as when you go from San Diego over the boarder to Mexico (you don’t need a stamp). Well, I figured wrong so when trying to leave we got gouged.
The Moral of the story is: Always get your Passport stamped when you exit or enter a country no matter what anyone tells you.
Anyway, on to that Yahoo thing in the headline: When I went to log in to my yahoo account here in Caracas, I got this interesting question:
We can increase site speed and efficiency for you by copying your user information (which may include sensitive data) to one of our servers in another country. Please note that privacy protections provided by another country may be different from those provided by your country. For more information about how Yahoo! treats your information, check out our privacy policies.
Yes: Create a copy. Click this button to optimize performance. By doing so, you permit Yahoo! to process and duplicate your personal information on servers located in another country .
No: Don’t create a copy. Click this button if you do not wish to have your personal information copied to servers located in another country . You can still use our service, though the site may not perform optimally.
It’s kind of funny because the country I trust least with my privacy is the government of the USA! Where is the option to take all of my information off of the US servers and put them somewhere where they respect privacy more? The only place I think they snoop more than in the US is in China.
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Cool, welcome to Venezuela!
Drop me an email if you need anything.