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Former DoubleClick Exec Named Privacy Czar
tsu doh nimh writes "A former executive for banner ad giant DoubleClick has been selected to be the first ever privacy czar for the Department of Homeland Security, says this Washingtonpost.com story." Just leaves you speechless ....
Will we start getting Homeland Security updates through banner ads? Will popup banner ads now be government endorsed? ;-)
Surely they could find someone with a better resume than that? Surely?
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Thanks for a voice of sanity. But you forgot to flame the submitter and and chrisd for not bothering to RTFA.
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Well It depends on what the meaning of word "privacy" is..
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
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How ironic, an ad for Microsoft on an anti-Micro... oh wait... no, nevermind.
1) Create banner ads for US Government
2) ???
3) Prophet!
Damnit, messed that one up too...
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Just wait for Apple to make one.
Somehow, I'm really not comforted by this choice for "Privacy Czar".
Next thing you know, Jeff Bezos will be running the Patent Office and Bill Gates will be in charge of the DoJ case against Microsoft.
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This seems like Grandma asking the wolf to babysit Little Red Riding Hood.
As long as there is a Second Amendment, there will always be a First Amendment.
This DoubleClick exec doesn't think the things his company did were wrong. That's the difference.
..." Aside from their actual lack of ability in doing such things, this is nothing of the case. As she was brought in to clean up DoubleClicks act after the FTC started coming down. After she came on board, DoubleClick cleaned up their privacy violations. This would illustrate that DoubleClick does care about privacy, after enforced to do so, and this executive happens to care very much about it, as it is her career.
Hi everybody, it's time to play, spot the idiot. The idiot has several characteristics, the most notable one is the inability to form a sentence without being absolutely wrong. For example, "...the things his company did..." is exceptionally wrong, because this DoubleClick exec happens to be a woman.
Proof that they don't know what they are talking about, nor that they know who this person is.
The second sign of an idiot is the ability to peer inside of others heads and illustrate what it is that they are thinking. For example, "This DoubleClick exec doesn't think
There are many other signs to point to an idiot, these are just the most prominent. Stay tuned for next weeks, "When Idiots Post"
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Of course, when you read the article you also get a popup ad... :-(
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and the three most powerful men in america are named "bush", "dick", and "colon".
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In this case, it's reason #1"Yet another example of the Bush doubleplusgood government in action! Of course this is right in line with an administration that fakes 'popular' Iraqi support of the American 'liberation' of Baghdad yahoo.com [yahoo.com].
Now watch as the Bush apologists leap out of the closet to support his choice, citing her 'community building' with privacy groups and whatnot. Right...as if they couldn't find thousands of more qualified choices who actually work with real, honest-to-god privacy advocacy groups.... "
The beauty of having a karma score far beyond anything you could ever actually need is that you can take a post that's been marked as a 'troll' by some ignorant right-wing looney Bush boot-licker and repost it - with a score of '2'.
Sometimes, enraging the conservative pricks who prowl Slashdot is enough to put a big ol' grin on your face....
Check out the article, though. The 'popular' Iraqi demonstration was actually staged by the Bush government, apparently because the Iraqis themselves are in no way celebrating the fact that they've been conquered. Imagine that!
And this is the government we entrust to watch over our privacy? Lying sacks of shit, scum of the Earth fuckwits who pull crap like this? And then appoint a Doubleclick lackey to 'watch over' our privacy? Wake up, shitheads - our privacy is *already guarranteed* by the Constitution. The only thing an ad company executive can do is find ways to circumvent protections that are more than 200 years old.
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Bush could name the former chief of security of Microsoft as the Cyber Security Czar... oh wait, he did.
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You know, why do we call these positions "czar" whatever? What, are we living in pre-revolutionary Russia? Who started the whole czar title thing? Wasn't there just one czar in Russia too? Or maybe that's Czar with a capital C? Hmmm....
..naming James Watt as secretary of the interior. Oh wait, that's been done. how about...
..having Kissinger head a probe about Intelligence failures. Oh yeah. Ok, let's try
..having John Ashcroft head the Deparment of Justice.
Ok, that's it. I give up.
Excellent! After smashing someone for daring to guese the intentions of others, you state them yourself. Did you ever consider alternate ideas?
How do you know that Doubleclick cares about privacy? The indications are that they did not, you know 12 state investigations, a federal investigation and a private class action suit. They settled those suits, but we don't have any real indication they changed what they were doing do we?
Now what would a company that does not care about privacy have to hire someone for? Perhaps to lie for them? We don't know that, all we know from the article is that she was a "consesus builder". What the hell is that? Someone that convinces me that it's OK for double click to sell my credit history if they keep quiet about my dental records? Hmm. Yes indeed, I suspect someone who could work for a company like Double Click is dishonest. Dishonest or a 34 year old puppet.
Now what do the Feds want her for? To advocate the Total Information Rape Act? CAPUT? No thanks, I've got better use for my money than another liar.
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No, it makes perfect sense. We have a Drug Czar (John Walters) and a Terrorism Czar (Tom Ridge), both of whose jobs are to eradicate the things they are Czar "of". Therefore, the Prizacy Czar's job is to eradicate privacy. Ergo, the title makes perfect sense.
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Is anyone else concerned about the increasing number of government sanctioned Czars in America? At what point did we become a Czarist nation?
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