Thursday, July 03, 2008
Threat to privacy?
Looks like google may need to give private information to a public company. Viacom wants to have the usernames, ip addresses, video's watched, etc...
How would you like it if someone had access to:
every book you read
every article you read in a magazine
every show you watch on TV
every phone call you make and to whom
every place you go with your cellular phone whether you make a call or not
okay... I am stretching it a bit here and starting "the slippery slope" falacy (where things keep getting a little bit worse, then a little bit more, then a bit more until the world is falling apart when alls that happened initially may have been something as simple as a clerk frowning at a customer who then kicked the dog who bit the neighbor who punched the dog's owner who then got in his car and road over the neighbor's mailbox, etc. etc. etc...
So, to a more appropriate question.
How would you feel if all the video's you watched on You Tube were made available to a large company?
Fill in the rest of the argument (the slope type thingy however you see fit)...
Does it bother you?
Come on google! Do no evil, remember?
Fight this one.
If Viacom wants your marketing data that bad (that is all they want isn't it??), why don't they buy you.
Or, better yet... maybe you could tender some offer to Sumner and Company?
hrm...
Wait a minute....
A public company does have access to that data...
As well as the data about everything you search for...
Does that bother you? :)
Anywho, interesting questions. I recall one of my prof's was wanting to ensure that internet searches (who is searching for what) was private....
What now-a-days is private?
I remember something about the police not being able to observe something in your house due to some advance in technology which allows them to see things which you would normally not be able to see...
Then again, that was pre-issues with worrying about whether some group was going to attack...
Interesting stuff...
Personally, I could give a care. Not that I am granting in any way any license to my search requests to any entity. That is my intellectual property as far as I am concerned... ;)
sil
oh...
I guess I should say something else now...
mil p.o.'d at sil...
sil divorcing the daughter of mil
so... (thinking)...
till laters...
nil
Looks like google may need to give private information to a public company. Viacom wants to have the usernames, ip addresses, video's watched, etc...
How would you like it if someone had access to:
every book you read
every article you read in a magazine
every show you watch on TV
every phone call you make and to whom
every place you go with your cellular phone whether you make a call or not
okay... I am stretching it a bit here and starting "the slippery slope" falacy (where things keep getting a little bit worse, then a little bit more, then a bit more until the world is falling apart when alls that happened initially may have been something as simple as a clerk frowning at a customer who then kicked the dog who bit the neighbor who punched the dog's owner who then got in his car and road over the neighbor's mailbox, etc. etc. etc...
So, to a more appropriate question.
How would you feel if all the video's you watched on You Tube were made available to a large company?
Fill in the rest of the argument (the slope type thingy however you see fit)...
Does it bother you?
Come on google! Do no evil, remember?
Fight this one.
If Viacom wants your marketing data that bad (that is all they want isn't it??), why don't they buy you.
Or, better yet... maybe you could tender some offer to Sumner and Company?
hrm...
Wait a minute....
A public company does have access to that data...
As well as the data about everything you search for...
Does that bother you? :)
Anywho, interesting questions. I recall one of my prof's was wanting to ensure that internet searches (who is searching for what) was private....
What now-a-days is private?
I remember something about the police not being able to observe something in your house due to some advance in technology which allows them to see things which you would normally not be able to see...
Then again, that was pre-issues with worrying about whether some group was going to attack...
Interesting stuff...
Personally, I could give a care. Not that I am granting in any way any license to my search requests to any entity. That is my intellectual property as far as I am concerned... ;)
sil
oh...
I guess I should say something else now...
mil p.o.'d at sil...
sil divorcing the daughter of mil
so... (thinking)...
till laters...
nil
