Big Brother Has Arrived and Is Watching -- YOU!
Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court
By SAUL HANSELL
Just as Internet companies collect more information,
prosecutors and civil lawyers are more readily using that
information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/technology/04privacy.html?th&emc=th
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Routinely when I open my morning email I must delete 50-100 spams -- offering monies and various types of enticing bodies for instant perusal. I can't trust the usual spam detecting services because they are likely to screen out all sorts of legitimate communications -- family, students, even the blind copy from myself that accompanies my own postings!
This jolly NY Times report on internet screening by legal authorities and others would seem to indicate that any who slip up and hit the wrong button may well find him/herself caught up in, say, a child porn prosecution? And then there are my computers that are open to use by others -- all of them. I have offered my personal office computer for the use of those deprived of computer access in our college -- our adjunct teachers particularly -- and make it available to any and all others, e.g. our students.
I can't help but imagine that many an office computer is similarly unprotected or readily available for use by others than those to whom they are formally assigned.
If this is not 1984, I don't know what is:
http://www.shire.net/big.brother/
Big Brother has arrived and is now out there gathering g-d knows what garbage from us all.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PrivacyRights
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
By SAUL HANSELL
Just as Internet companies collect more information,
prosecutors and civil lawyers are more readily using that
information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/technology/04privacy.html?th&emc=th
..................
Routinely when I open my morning email I must delete 50-100 spams -- offering monies and various types of enticing bodies for instant perusal. I can't trust the usual spam detecting services because they are likely to screen out all sorts of legitimate communications -- family, students, even the blind copy from myself that accompanies my own postings!
This jolly NY Times report on internet screening by legal authorities and others would seem to indicate that any who slip up and hit the wrong button may well find him/herself caught up in, say, a child porn prosecution? And then there are my computers that are open to use by others -- all of them. I have offered my personal office computer for the use of those deprived of computer access in our college -- our adjunct teachers particularly -- and make it available to any and all others, e.g. our students.
I can't help but imagine that many an office computer is similarly unprotected or readily available for use by others than those to whom they are formally assigned.
If this is not 1984, I don't know what is:
http://www.shire.net/big.brother/
Big Brother has arrived and is now out there gathering g-d knows what garbage from us all.
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PrivacyRights
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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