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First: Thank you Snowden for introducing Privacy as a Banner issue which makes things like competing on providing greater privacy a "Business Differentiator".
by suprgeek 12y ago
First:
Thank you Snowden for introducing Privacy as a Banner issue which makes things like competing on providing greater privacy a "Business Differentiator".
Before the disclosures there was only a murmur of privacy violations that too only amongst the tech literate. Yesterday the old guy manning the register at a store said "Now they can't track you when you pay by cash" to the customer in-front of me.
Second:
What a lazy-ass way to dragnet everybody and get stuck with huge irrelevant data!
If you really suspected some one, the govt. should be able to convince a judge to get a "tap&gag".
- joe_the_user 12y ago...allow notification to happen or go to magistrate judges to seek either gag orders or search warrants, which typically are issued under seal for a fixed period of time, delaying notification Yes, whine-away, when law enforcement is required to get an adult in the room before they go all Rambo, "obviously the terrorists have won".
- ZoF 12y agoSorry for the tangent here, but I'm curious; how were they previously tracking customers paying with cash? Was it some form of membership with the store that would need to be provided on checkout?
- davorb 12y agoCredit cards.
- GotAnyMegadeth 12y agoI read it as a "Now listen here", not a "Now they have the internet on phones you know".
- ZoF 12y agoHaha, this is a late reply, but you got me parsing that statement correctly, thanks :)
- DanBC 12y ago> [...] competing on providing greater privacy a "Business Differentiator". Facebook described as "competing on privacy" shows us just how fucked our notions of privacy are.
- 3pt14159 12y agoThe dragnet is about lookin back through time once a great has been identified. Or to look at trending in different communities or countries.