Stage Set for Showdown on Online Privacy
Basil Chupin
blchupin at iinet.net.au
Thu Nov 11 06:33:41 GMT 2010
On 11/11/2010 16:52, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 03:18:57PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> ..........snip.........
>>>
>>> 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." :-)
>>
> Aw shucks I only know what I've seen over these last 70<mumble harumph>
> years.
>
Well, I have always taken the pessimistic view: if I am wrong then I am
happy to have been proven wrong, but if I am right then I can say, "I
knew it, I told you so."
There haven't been that many times where I have been proven wrong and
therefore happy.......
BC
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"Will the highways of the internet become more few?"
George W Bush
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