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Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens

Posted by michael on from the data-arbitrage dept.

schwit1 writes "Washington Post has an article about former TIA personnel moving their data mining operations offshore (Bahamas) to escape U.S. privacy rules, and to make a buck. I'm waiting for somebody to publish the private data (financial, medical, legal) of federal officials and their families on an open internet web server out of the Bahamas. Is this what it will take for the US to enact stringent privacy rules?"

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  1. this topic needs more cowbell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    c'mon guys, this topic needs more cowbell

  2. Here you go, although not from Bahamas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm waiting for somebody to publish the private data (financial, medical, legal) of federal officials and their families on an open internet web server out of the Bahamas.

    John Kerry had Botox injections and is married to ketchup queen.

    George Bush was a partner in Saudi investment company that's linked to bin Laden family. He also owns a timber company.

    Happy now?

  3. WIR sind das Volk -- WE are the October surprise! by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Disappointed that still have of the US population favors Dubya? Don't despair, there's a strong suspicion that the surveys are wrong:

    As it is forbidden for surveyors to call cell phone numbers, those people who have ditched their landlines and only have cells are not included in the polls... and these are exactly the Slashdot dwelling technophiles which traditionally have been apatic to politics, but are now waking up...

    Will we see some surprise support for Kerry on November 2nd? Or even better: for Badnarik or for Nader...

  4. Re:WIR sind das Volk -- WE are the October surpris by Nogami_Saeko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heck, if some pollster was to call me, I'd purposefully LIE and say that I supported Bush to throw their numbers off as far as possible and make the republicans confident and complacent...

    Before the rug is jerked out from under them.

    But I'm not an American, and I'm not voting in your election. You guys are responsible for whoever wins, and if it happens to be Bush... Well, that will say a few things about people in your country...

    N.

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    "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
  5. Re:WIR sind das Volk -- WE are the October surpris by Zenzilla · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, you don't seem to understand Americans. While voting for a good president is important, it is not as important as voting for the winner.

  6. Re:WIR sind das Volk -- WE are the October surpris by AlphaSys · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, more accurate this time around would be, "while voting for a good candidate is important, if that vote has a good chance of helping the very worst candidate win, you need to reconsider that vote."

    Bush said if you're not for him you're against him. Well, I ain't for him.

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    Can I bum a sig? I left mine at the office.