Comments on: Google: Protecting Your Privacy? http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: A little yellow bird http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68498 A little yellow bird Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:33:45 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68498 "fconte": What else can they do? Please see "The Google Conundrum": http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer129.html. “fconte”: What else can they do? Please see “The Google Conundrum”: http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer129.html.

]]> By: fconte http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68497 fconte Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:09:30 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68497 Oh how the virtuous have fallen. Google to comply with China's restrictive speech codes. Hmm. I guess Google going up against Uncle Sam doesn't look so noble. http://news.pajamasmedia.com/business/2006/01/24/7060821_Google_officiall.shtml Oh how the virtuous have fallen. Google to comply with China’s restrictive speech codes. Hmm. I guess Google going up against Uncle Sam doesn’t look so noble.

http://news.pajamasmedia.com/business/2006/01/24/7060821_Google_officiall.shtml

]]> By: sidewalker http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68496 sidewalker Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:44:31 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68496 The recent Le Show's "Dick Cheney: Confidential" has a few jokes related to this theme. Worth a listen if you like sarcastic humor: http://www.harryshearer.com/leshow/ The recent Le Show’s “Dick Cheney: Confidential” has a few jokes related to this theme. Worth a listen if you like sarcastic humor: http://www.harryshearer.com/leshow/

]]> By: sidewalker http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68495 sidewalker Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:52:21 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68495 I have criticized several of the shows as too closed-sourced, so it is appropriate to mention that I though today's show was really well produced. The guests were knowledgeable and with a range of opinions and some of the other questions or comments from this BB were included. I agree that though we have hack-back tools to limit the eye of big brother government and corporate uncle from probing our minds, should we have to "arm" ourselves to protect our privacy? Fences, hand guns and firewalls: so much for the commons. A strange thought I had while listening to the show was just how lucky I am to worry about digital privacy in comparison to some Iraqi people who can do nothing to protect their own private homes from foreign army intrusion. I have criticized several of the shows as too closed-sourced, so it is appropriate to mention that I though today’s show was really well produced. The guests were knowledgeable and with a range of opinions and some of the other questions or comments from this BB were included.

I agree that though we have hack-back tools to limit the eye of big brother government and corporate uncle from probing our minds, should we have to “arm” ourselves to protect our privacy? Fences, hand guns and firewalls: so much for the commons.

A strange thought I had while listening to the show was just how lucky I am to worry about digital privacy in comparison to some Iraqi people who can do nothing to protect their own private homes from foreign army intrusion.

]]> By: jazzman http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68494 jazzman Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:24:38 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68494 Welcome to the digital-dystopia. Throughout history, the evolution of technology presents us with marvel and menace and the more powerful the technology the more the potential for less than ideal application. This is the so-called INFORMATION AGE (the latest in human paradigm shifts.) With GPS it’s possible to track one’s whereabouts, with point of sale data – one’s purchasing profile. With digital CATV and On-Demand Entertainment – one’s personal leisure predilections. With automotive computers – one’s driving habits. On-line transactions - Libraries – Work – Web Cams – Credit Cards – Cell Phones – Medical records – This call may be monitored/recorded for quality purposes, yada, yada. We leave digital spoors (spores) all over cyberspace on countless disk drives and tapes and backups. If you know that it’s possible to gather and use this information for or against you then forewarned is forearmed (absent the off-grid troglodyte barter/cash only scenario – if cash were outlawed and all monetary exchange were digital (no shortage of sci-fi on this theme) good luck shopping at the black supermarket, and if ALYB’s gummint can wangle it, they would like nothing better for you or me – of course they would exempt themselves as they routinely do.) Just assume that everything you do or say is recorded, open to view by basically anyone who really wants to bother and act accordingly – CYA if you feel it’s necessary. Follow the money. There are trillions (maybe more) of $ waiting to be dug out of the data mines (the digital mother lode – the richest in human history) and just as much “in kindâ€? value to our noble guardians who know what’s best for us (them!) and save us from ourselves and anyone deemed to be any kind of threat. This genie is out of the bottle and not likely to willingly return unless there’s a quid pro quo (monetary or in kind.) As to the Canadian option, they don’t even pretend to have a right to free speech (most other places either. See E-bay vs. France.) As to the legality of these actions, I quote from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madreâ€? "Badges??? We ain't got no badges!!! We don't need no badges!!! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!!!" and I paraphrase our fearless (fearful) leader. “Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper.â€? ALYB is correct when he says:>> The government ultimately really does represent the collective, semi-conscious will of the people; Welcome to the digital-dystopia. Throughout history, the evolution of technology presents us with marvel and menace and the more powerful the technology the more the potential for less than ideal application. This is the so-called INFORMATION AGE (the latest in human paradigm shifts.) With GPS it’s possible to track one’s whereabouts, with point of sale data – one’s purchasing profile. With digital CATV and On-Demand Entertainment – one’s personal leisure predilections. With automotive computers – one’s driving habits. On-line transactions – Libraries – Work – Web Cams – Credit Cards – Cell Phones – Medical records – This call may be monitored/recorded for quality purposes, yada, yada. We leave digital spoors (spores) all over cyberspace on countless disk drives and tapes and backups. If you know that it’s possible to gather and use this information for or against you then forewarned is forearmed (absent the off-grid troglodyte barter/cash only scenario – if cash were outlawed and all monetary exchange were digital (no shortage of sci-fi on this theme) good luck shopping at the black supermarket, and if ALYB’s gummint can wangle it, they would like nothing better for you or me – of course they would exempt themselves as they routinely do.) Just assume that everything you do or say is recorded, open to view by basically anyone who really wants to bother and act accordingly – CYA if you feel it’s necessary. Follow the money. There are trillions (maybe more) of $ waiting to be dug out of the data mines (the digital mother lode – the richest in human history) and just as much “in kindâ€? value to our noble guardians who know what’s best for us (them!) and save us from ourselves and anyone deemed to be any kind of threat. This genie is out of the bottle and not likely to willingly return unless there’s a quid pro quo (monetary or in kind.) As to the Canadian option, they don’t even pretend to have a right to free speech (most other places either. See E-bay vs. France.) As to the legality of these actions, I quote from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madreâ€? “Badges??? We ain’t got no badges!!! We don’t need no badges!!! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!!!” and I paraphrase our fearless (fearful) leader. “Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper.â€? ALYB is correct when he says:>> The government ultimately really does represent the collective, semi-conscious will of the people;

]]> By: A little yellow bird http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68493 A little yellow bird Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:38:26 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68493 "George Robertson": Nice fantasy, but this is all about a further consolidation of state policing powers, especially in the executive, and a further cowing of the populace. The feds will even "catch" some "miscreants" to show how effective they're being, and people will bow out of various businesses and reduce free-flow of info and online products and services to make themselves less visible and subject to trouble. The government ultimately really does represent the collective, semi-conscious will of the people; or as it is sung: "I shouted out, 'Who killed the Kennedys?', when after all, it was you and me." “George Robertson”: Nice fantasy, but this is all about a further consolidation of state policing powers, especially in the executive, and a further cowing of the populace. The feds will even “catch” some “miscreants” to show how effective they’re being, and people will bow out of various businesses and reduce free-flow of info and online products and services to make themselves less visible and subject to trouble. The government ultimately really does represent the collective, semi-conscious will of the people; or as it is sung: “I shouted out, ‘Who killed the Kennedys?’, when after all, it was you and me.”

]]> By: anon12392 http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68492 anon12392 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:42:59 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68492 Just like it's none of the gummint's business what I check out of the library or buy from Amazon, it's none of it's business what I search for. My more technical friends say that the searches aren't associated with names -- and somehow that makes it worse. How does this restrictive, backwards (if you disagree with the president you are a traitor)) administration then figure out if children are accessing pornography....because if you are over 21, it's not criminal - or is this the Christian right wing, the scariest most evil faction in amerioca, at work wanting to restrict access to pornography, period. An d bottom line, google, yahoo, ect, shouldn't be tracking our searches at all - the fact that the information exists at all for the gummit to try to get to is most disturbing of all. Just like it’s none of the gummint’s business what I check out of the library or buy from Amazon, it’s none of it’s business what I search for. My more technical friends say that the searches aren’t associated with names — and somehow that makes it worse. How does this restrictive, backwards (if you disagree with the president you are a traitor)) administration then figure out if children are accessing pornography….because if you are over 21, it’s not criminal – or is this the Christian right wing, the scariest most evil faction in amerioca, at work wanting to restrict access to pornography, period. An d bottom line, google, yahoo, ect, shouldn’t be tracking our searches at all – the fact that the information exists at all for the gummit to try to get to is most disturbing of all.

]]> By: George Robertson http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68491 George Robertson Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:49:48 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68491 I like to think that the fact that Google is at the eye of this is the result of a partnership of Microsoft and Karl Rove. Rove desperately needs a juicy crotch oriented issue to save the R's from cedrtain defeat in the comming mid term elections and what better than a porn crusade to distract America from the reality that the government has run completely amok, wrecked your childrens economic future, and taken away your fundamental rights to privacy, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. microsoft which gave up the data immediately and before this became an issue, could not be happier to have anything distracting Google from the business of hiring all of the best talent in Redmond and eating away at the Microsfot monopoly. I like to think that the fact that Google is at the eye of this is the result of a partnership of Microsoft and Karl Rove. Rove desperately needs a juicy crotch oriented issue to save the R’s from cedrtain defeat in the comming mid term elections and what better than a porn crusade to distract America from the reality that the government has run completely amok, wrecked your childrens economic future, and taken away your fundamental rights to privacy, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. microsoft which gave up the data immediately and before this became an issue, could not be happier to have anything distracting Google from the business of hiring all of the best talent in Redmond and eating away at the Microsfot monopoly.

]]> By: A little yellow bird http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68490 A little yellow bird Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:05:51 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68490 If you're not descended from tech-magnon man, a.k.a. australowbrowpatheticus, as I am, or not otherwise techtarded or diiferently-intellected' you may benefit from these various ways of anonymizing yourself: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70051-0.html. (Found @ an excellent libertarian site today: http://strike-the-root.com/) If you’re not descended from tech-magnon man, a.k.a. australowbrowpatheticus, as I am, or not otherwise techtarded or diiferently-intellected’ you may benefit from these various ways of anonymizing yourself: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70051-0.html. (Found @ an excellent libertarian site today: http://strike-the-root.com/)

]]> By: A little yellow bird http://www.radioopensource.org/google-protecting-your-privacy/#comment-68489 A little yellow bird Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:16:02 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=394#comment-68489 OK, I'll play: my silliest search was probably typing the whole of a limerick I wrote into the search line to see if it resembled any others (it didn't!). I'm so proud. I'd love to reproduce it here, but decorum forbids it (I think?). In fact, the explanation is simple: "The limerick packs laughs anatomical/Into space that is quite economical./But the good ones I've seen/Are so seldom clean;/And the clean ones are so seldom comical!" -Bennett Cerf, maybe? OK, I’ll play: my silliest search was probably typing the whole of a limerick I wrote into the search line to see if it resembled any others (it didn’t!). I’m so proud. I’d love to reproduce it here, but decorum forbids it (I think?). In fact, the explanation is simple: “The limerick packs laughs anatomical/Into space that is quite economical./But the good ones I’ve seen/Are so seldom clean;/And the clean ones are so seldom comical!” -Bennett Cerf, maybe?

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