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Silicon Valley vs. Your Privacy

Posted by timothy on from the really-required-registration dept.

TreeRat submits word of an article in the New York Times' magazine section, including mention of the proposed national database which has been talked about on Slashdot before. "The story goes into great detail with Larry Ellison, who is still pushing hard to bring 'Big Brother' to life. When asked if this database will be created, and run on Oracle, Larry's response was 'I do think it will exist, and I think it is going to be an Oracle database. ...And we're going to track everything.' There's a lot more than Ellison in this piece, though, and much of it is scary.

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  1. Never happen by borgheron · · Score: 0, Troll

    What information will be contained in this "national database"? I've worked extensively w/ several versions of Oracle and I know it's faults.

    It's marketing hype guys.

    GJC

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