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Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy
- madair 16y agoThere was something fishy about that Forbes Project Vigilant story the other day, Greenwald followed up, quite shocking really.
- c1sc0 16y agoSo the Oracle was right all along: there never has been any privacy
- c1sc0 16y agoThis story and an oft-used TOS clause like this one should make you think: "Further, you acknowledge and agree that INSERT COMPANY is free to preserve and disclose any and all Personal Information to law enforcement agencies or others if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary"
- plainOldText 16y agoJudging by the number of comments on this post it seems that people don't care about privacy anymore. Just a thought.
- madair 16y agoPrivacy being such a gentle word to describe what's at stake.
- c1sc0 16y agoA scary thought. I'd expect there to be more interest in the HN community. Are we really too busy building stupid Facebook apps & crappy 'social' startups to stop caring when something like this happens? http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-...
- harscoat 16y agoThe scale of it is by far beyond what I'd have expected. I reckon I was not aware. Thx for sharing. It'll take me time to digest this new paradigm.