[ubuntu-in] OT- thought it might be of interest to many

[Ramnarayan.K]

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Highlights of Eben Moglen's Freedom in the Cloud Talk
Here are some highlights of the talk Eben gave on Freedom in the Cloud
at the New York ISOC branch meeting last Friday, February 2. A full
transcript is available here

The Problem [2:55] : "Our calendar is on the web. Our location is on
the web ... The deal that you get with the traditional service called
telephony now includes a thing you didn't know like spying. It's not a
service to you. But it's a service. And you get it for free with your
service contract for telephony. You get for free the service of
advertising with your Gmail, which of course means there is another
service behind, which is untouched by human hands, semantic analysis
of your email ... And you get free email service and some storage
which is worth exactly a penny and a half at the current price of
storage...

read the rest at:

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/10/highlights-eben-moglens-freedom-cloud-talk/

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ram