Comments on: Freedom even without data privacy

By: The retention of everything | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

The retention of everything | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:25:50 +0000

[...] be fingered later for pornography consumption or illegal file sharing. I deplore some of the ways web-surfing data can be and is being used, and want laws passed to rein them in. But the retention will [...]

By: Yahoo’s wants to do decapetabyte-scale data warehousing in Hadoop | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:05:14 +0000

[...] *I also spoke with a couple of Mark’s Yahoo colleagues, on his introduction, who are being less helpful than he is about clarifying what I am or am not allowed to say for publication. But I will say that I was heartened by the degree of concern they showed for doing the right thing with regard to privacy. I was not as heartened by the concrete ideas — or lack thereof — for making it happen. But frankly, I don’t think it’s a solvable technical problem. Rather, it should be a huge priority on the legal/political front. [...]

By: Ties That Bind by intir.net

Ties That Bind by intir.net — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:13:22 +0000

[...] US writer Curt Monash has written about this topic many times over the years, arguing that since we clearly cannot halt the move [...]

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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:45 +0000

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By: When people don’t want accurate predictions made about them | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:50:57 +0000

[...] Freedom even without data privacy (a public policy wish list) [...]

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:58:30 +0000

I think we disagree about who the real paranoids are.

CAM

By: prasanga

prasanga — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:51:51 +0000

Man do not be so paranoid, so what they know about you,it can be useful to fight terrorism and crime.

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Sat, 19 May 2007 02:53:49 +0000

Yes, potentially Big Brother.

The good news is that we have the power to resist. Look at how horrific the Bush Administration is, in principle, on liberty. Look at how little actual harm they’ve done to liberty on the actual soil of the 50 states. These things take time to REALLY go bad, at least in the US.

CAM

By: Pol Health Guy

Pol Health Guy — Thu, 17 May 2007 06:42:18 +0000

Governments are driving to build and integrate vast databanks of information about us. We can’t stop this.
However, we can and should slow it and shape it.
Since we can’t ultimately stop the collection of information, we also need to establish a whole new set of legal limits on the use of information
kinda scary…

By: Pol Health Guy Info

Pol Health Guy Info — Thu, 17 May 2007 06:41:04 +0000

“Governments are driving to build and integrate vast databanks of information about us. We can’t stop this.
However, we can and should slow it and shape it.
Since we can’t ultimately stop the collection of information, we also need to establish a whole new set of legal limits on the use of info
rmation”
hmmm scary. Big brother?