Comments on: The myth of privacy http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:10:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: AOL axes data leakers » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-21741 AOL axes data leakers » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:48:40 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-21741 [...] I mentioned the AOL and user data cock-up a couple of weeks back. Now, according to a story on CNET today, 2 people have been left go from AOL and CTO Maureen Govern has resigned as a result. [...] [...] I mentioned the AOL and user data cock-up a couple of weeks back. Now, according to a story on CNET today, 2 people have been left go from AOL and CTO Maureen Govern has resigned as a result. [...]

]]> By: Where’s the case for data retention? » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20784 Where’s the case for data retention? » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:43:07 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20784 [...] Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced today that he thinks the greatest danger to people’s privacy is not from leaks of people’s data as happened earlier this week to AOL users but rather from government snooping. I have always worried the query stream is a fertile ground for governments to snoop on the people. [...] [...] Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced today that he thinks the greatest danger to people’s privacy is not from leaks of people’s data as happened earlier this week to AOL users but rather from government snooping. I have always worried the query stream is a fertile ground for governments to snoop on the people. [...]

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20779 Tom Raftery Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:32:04 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20779 Bobby - proxies haven't caught on here for two reasons: 1. Nobody is aware of them and 2. With the irish government forcing ISPs to hold onto log files for 3 years, search proxies are no good for protecting your privacy (unless there are some operating over ssl)! Bobby - proxies haven’t caught on here for two reasons:
1. Nobody is aware of them and
2. With the irish government forcing ISPs to hold onto log files for 3 years, search proxies are no good for protecting your privacy (unless there are some operating over ssl)!

]]> By: Bernie Goldbach http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20752 Bernie Goldbach Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:06:43 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20752 I believe it's just as chilling to realise that the Irish government will save all records of your search engine requests for three years, without any clearly-articulated data protection standards wrapped around that data. This is the crux of the legal challenge made by Digital Rights Ireland and one you've highlighted in an earlier podcast. I don't think most Irish citizens understand the implications of this data retention policy. You haven't searched for anything you wouldn't want the gardai to know about, have you? I believe it’s just as chilling to realise that the Irish government will save all records of your search engine requests for three years, without any clearly-articulated data protection standards wrapped around that data. This is the crux of the legal challenge made by Digital Rights Ireland and one you’ve highlighted in an earlier podcast. I don’t think most Irish citizens understand the implications of this data retention policy.

You haven’t searched for anything you wouldn’t want the gardai to know about, have you?

]]> By: Bobby http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20750 Bobby Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:53:20 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20750 Why havent proxies caught on? theres even many proxies just for search. And they are free. heres one http://www.blackboxsearch.com Why havent proxies caught on?

theres even many proxies just for search. And they are free.

heres one http://www.blackboxsearch.com

]]> By: Pt Phelan http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20730 Pt Phelan Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:48:24 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/the-myth-of-privacy/#comment-20730 only thing I have searched for is how to get more traffic Tom ;) only thing I have searched for is how to get more traffic Tom ;)

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