Stage Set for Showdown on Online Privacy

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/11/2010 09:49, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:40:21PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> WASHINGTON After do not call lists became popular, more than 90
>>
>> percent of people who signed up reported fewer annoying telemarketing
>> calls. Now, privacy advocates are pushing for a similar do not track
>> feature that would let Internet users tell Web sites to stop
>> surreptitiously tracking their online habits and collecting clues about
>> age, salary, health, location and leisure activities
>>      
> Even as we read this, the corporate community that owns the government
> via their lobbyists are rolling on the floor convulsed with hysterical
> laughter. The legislators, on the other hand, are salivating over the
> thought of all the free vacations in the Bahamas and other
> gifts....freely given with no thought of any quid pro quo of course.
>
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>
> Excuse me now. I have to go and wipe the tears from my eyes.
>    

"It's hard to argue against cynics -- they always sound smarter than 
optimists because they have so much evidence on their side." :-)

BC

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