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Microsoft Calls for National Privacy Law
tabdelgawad writes "Brian Krebs, who writes the Washington Post's Security Fix Blog notes that Microsoft has just asked Congress to enact a new federal privacy law to preempt the growing hodge-podge of state laws that regulate how companies can use personal information. Go Microsoft!?"
Does that mean I have to commit ritual suicide now?
Anyone else think that Microsoft is trying to buy our love?
Technoli
Exactly my thoughts. Anything the greases the wheels of multinational corporate greed has to be a bad thing. So let's introduce more privacy laws. Maybe on a county by county level, and different laws depending on the annual profits of your company and your previously indicated tendency to evil.
How we know is more important than what we know.
It will end up requiring MS-Privacy v1.0 for all taxpayers. No linux version available.
The first step to ensuring that our privacy is protected is to make it federal law that all citizens have a Passport account...
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
I would assume this means said organizations would not be running Microsoft products...
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Microsoft is also going to write the EULA for the new federal privacy law.
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> 1. Individuals have no rights to privacy.
> 2. Corporations can do what they want with any data.
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> That is, they want enshrined in national law the most pernicious possible data standards.
You must be new to K Street. Never miss an opportunity to enshrine a monopoly in legislation by finding a way to render your competitors' business practices, even where they're identical to your own, illegal - while simultaneously granting yourself the permission to do the same thing under color of law.
I've therefore amended your second rule as follows:
2. Corporations that have business models that conflict with that of Microsoft must be held to the most stringent privacy standards.
Although the Constitution is no longer relevant, it's still considered bad form to write a Bill of Attainder", so you have to be a little clever about it.
Thus, you'll typically end up with something like this:
I'm a nudist you insensitive clod!
MS is making a strike at google's efforts by putting tighter restrictions on how they can use, and possibly distribute your information in the future.
Good!
Now all we need is for Google to lobby for national software quality control standards and we will be set!
If you really wanna go offtopic, let's talk about small business on the Linux platform shall we? If I were to release a version of my software for Linux the immediate response I would get is that it is completely unnecessary, as software like netstat, nettop, and tcplog work flawlessly on Linux, are free, and my software is no better. Supposing my software was actually useful on that platform, someone would most likely demand that I open source it, and when I refused they would clone it and open source their clone. As such, the only software that can be sold on the Linux platform is open source licensed, or is so large that cloning it is beyond the capability of a small group of developers. i.e., only software that is developed by big business can be sold on the Linux platform. Anything within the capabilities of a small business cannot be sold without being cloned, and a small business can't afford to support open source licensed software as the profit margins are too thin. So what's the alternative? If I could develop software for Mac I would.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I'm a nudist you insensitive clod!
I just had lunch, you insensitive clod!
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Funny...you described exactly what happend the last time the Mother Teresa saw me... Nobody asked me if I deserved it...
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