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Not Surprising

Consumers really do care about their privacy, according to a Consumer Reports survey:

According to a Consumer Reports press release, the national survey found that 71% of respondents said they were very concerned about companies selling or sharing their information about them without their permission. Another 65% of smartphone owners don’t like that apps can access their contacts, photos, locations and other data without permission from them.

Who knew? ;-)

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Not really so funny

Recently I posted my thoughts regarding Eric Schmidt’s comments about on-line privacy and his prediction that we’ll eventually have to change our identities to get away from on-line indiscretions. In a related WSJ article Mr. Schmidt explains how Google will be able to predict what we want because Google knows:

‘…roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are.’ Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are.

So again, if Google knows all of this it then shouldn’t it d be able to help us get rid of it? Granted we might not be able to delete every shred of information, but getting to the bulk of it… Continue reading: Not really so funny

The user formerly known as Karen Hobert

The BBC World News Hour presented this report (Chapter 10) in reaction to Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s recent comments about personal privacy:

“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “I mean we really have to think about these things as a society.”

Really? You’re telling us now that you’re hording everything that we’re posting on-line and you’re giving us no way to retract it? That it’s entirely up to us to make sure we… Continue reading: The user formerly known as Karen Hobert