January 28 is Data Privacy Day

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January 28 is Data Privacy Day

Posted by timothy on Friday January 27, 2012 @01:08PM from the national-brotherhood-week dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A bit early, but just a reminder that January 28 is international Data Privacy Day in the U.S., Canada, and many European countries. Various events are being held around the globe: the head of the FTC opened a weekend forum on the topic by calling out Facebook and Google, the Ontario Privacy Commissioner is holding a symposium on 'Surveillance by Design', and of course Google recently announced they'll be tracking you more thoroughly in the future."

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Does that mean no posting on slashdot? by cshark · 2012-01-27 13:12 · Score: 1

Darn

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1. Re:Does that mean no posting on slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 13:17 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Not to worry. You can borrow my account.
2. Re:Does that mean no posting on slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-28 00:35 · Score: 0
  
  no, it means we should all be Anonymous Cowards!
Vote with your feet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 13:12 · Score: 0

Switching from Dropbox to SpiderOak to celebrate.
1. Re:Vote with your feet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 13:46 · Score: 0
  
  No thanks.
2. Re:Vote with your feet by Sulphur · 2012-01-27 13:52 · Score: 1
  
  No thanks.
  The recount is hell.
3. Re:Vote with your feet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 14:20 · Score: 1
  
  Switching from Google to something like DuckDuckGo could also be worthy.
4. Re:Vote with your feet by countertrolling · 2012-01-27 14:31 · Score: 1
  
  Cut it out with that spamming shit... They're no different than anybody else.
  
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5. Re:Vote with your feet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 15:36 · Score: 0
  
  Have a better suggestion? Ixquick?
6. Re:Vote with your feet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 17:47 · Score: 1
  
  I'll bite. They got free email, calendar, shared docs, office suite, photo album hosting, chat network, with my friends on it, mapping system and drive traffic to my site?
7. Re:Vote with your feet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-28 01:20 · Score: 0
  
  Yes they are!
  DuckDuckGo has a mention of data privacy day on their frontpage
  All Google could care about is 125th anniversary of the largest snowflake?!
  Nuff said.
8. Re:Vote with your feet by countertrolling · 2012-01-28 04:54 · Score: 1
  
  DuckDuckGo has a mention of data privacy day on their frontpage...
  And I have some beautiful Florida swampland for sale that's worth ten times any internet 'privacy' policy you can dredge up
  
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9. Re:Vote with your feet by countertrolling · 2012-01-28 05:17 · Score: 1
  
  Have a better suggestion?
  The only trustworthy option is to run your own web crawler. And even then you can't trust your service provider not to spy on you. In light of this, short answer is 'no'.
  
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10. Re:Vote with your feet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-28 05:55 · Score: 0
  
  What are you going on about?
11. Re:Vote with your feet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-28 06:05 · Score: 0
  
  In your case, I wouldn't even bother using the Internet, as you are ALWAYS being watched at some point.
  “On the Internet you have no privacy, get over it .” (CEO of Cisco Systems)
12. Re:Vote with your feet by countertrolling · 2012-01-28 07:00 · Score: 1
  
  Well, we might able to introduce privacy on the internet when we are able to cut ourselves free of AT&T's wire. For now sneakernet is the only way
  
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A momentous occasion by geminidomino · 2012-01-27 13:13 · Score: 3, Insightful

I'm sure it will be properly celebrated by the stakeholders at Google, Zynga, Apple, Facebook, and USGov sitting in their offices and giggling quietly to themselves throughout the day.
1. Re:A momentous occasion by the+eric+conspiracy · 2012-01-27 13:41 · Score: 1
  
  Yes, pretty much. I've decided that since I'm going to be ass-raped in this fashion I might as well profit by it so I'm well invested in companies that exploit customer data to the max.
  Can't wait for the Facebook IPO. Boo-Ya.
2. Re:A momentous occasion by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 13:44 · Score: 0
  
  Not sure why Apple is on that list. Again, Apple users are their customers, they don't sell your data as a source of revenue.
Stop it already. by Stumbles · 2012-01-27 13:21 · Score: 1

Just how many $TRUMPED_UP_LAME_ASS days do we need in any given year? If elected President of the USA I will sign an executive order making it illegal to declare anymore $TRUMPED_UP_LAME_ASS days.

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1. Re:Stop it already. by somersault · 2012-01-27 13:23 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I declare January 29th, "No More Trumped Up Lame Ass Days Day". Also, it's my sister's birthday.
  
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  which is totally what she said
2. Re:Stop it already. by godrik · 2012-01-27 13:44 · Score: 1
  
  I, hereby, declare january 29th "birthday of somersault's sister day"!
  At least we will have a "something-day" one person gives shit about.
3. Re:Stop it already. by flimflammer · 2012-01-27 13:54 · Score: 1
  
  It is getting a bit excessive.
4. Re:Stop it already. by somersault · 2012-01-27 14:05 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I know. That's why I hid some AIDS in there.
  
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  which is totally what she said
5. Re:Stop it already. by countertrolling · 2012-01-27 14:39 · Score: 1
  
  Just how many $TRUMPED_UP_LAME_ASS days do we need in any given year?
  Happy Love Day, everyone!
  
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6. Re:Stop it already. by VortexCortex · 2012-01-27 19:14 · Score: 2
  
  Those donkeys deserve some respect, despite any recent injury. I believe the correct question is: "How many ~8.7 day increments in a year can be devoid of all but one holiday?" As you might suspect... the answer has already been derived.
7. Re:Stop it already. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 20:15 · Score: 0
  
  Happy Love Day, everyone!
  
  But I want Free-love day!
  NB. Apparently there was a tribe in Brazil with a 'free love' day. It essentially meant 50 men mounting the prettiest woman in the tribe.
HOW DO I SIGN UP ?? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 13:26 · Score: 0

I want to join !! Do they take American Express ?? How about Western Union ??
Google privacy challenge accepted. by RandomAvatar · 2012-01-27 13:26 · Score: 3, Insightful

As long as the website tells the truth in its privacy policy, https://ixquick.com/ will be more secure than Google.

there is also DuckDuckGo
1. Re:Google privacy challenge accepted. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 14:02 · Score: 0
  
  DuckDuckGo uses Bing. What makes you think Microsoft cares about your privacy?
2. Re:Google privacy challenge accepted. by heypete · 2012-01-27 23:41 · Score: 1
  
  They don't need to, so long as DDG does and you don't search for personally-identifying things about yourself.
3. Re:Google privacy challenge accepted. by allo · 2012-01-28 03:14 · Score: 1
  
  ddg sets no cookies with unique ids, so they cannot really track you for longer than to the next ip change (so approximate 24 hours only)
January 28 is international Data Privacy Day by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2012-01-27 13:31 · Score: 4, Funny

SSSHHH!! Don't tell anyone!

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1. Re:January 28 is international Data Privacy Day by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-28 12:23 · Score: 0
  
  It was also Davros Day in the UK.
My Social Network Needs to Know by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 13:54 · Score: 0

Quick! Everybody live-Tweet the event!
And don't forget to update your Facebook status!
January 28 is Data Privacy Day by Foxhoundz · 2012-01-27 14:13 · Score: 2

...or lack thereof.
Data Piracy Day by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 14:35 · Score: 0

Is it just me or did anyone else read that as data piracy day?
Re:rev.3 - Spook Backdoors in Cisco Routers by Zontar+The+Mindless · 2012-01-27 14:46 · Score: 1

Thank you for raising the bar for TL;DR.

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Lock it up by Whiteox · 2012-01-27 14:52 · Score: 1

OTOH if you restrict access to your website (IP Deny) how can they skim the data?

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Data? What data? There is no data... by jonadab · 2012-01-27 15:13 · Score: 1

There is only XUL.

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We're EVIL now. Deal with it! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 17:47 · Score: 0

Look, instead of charging everybody 10 bucks a month which everyone would whine about paying we've gone ahead compiling a comprehensive and indestructible dossier on every man, woman, and child in the developed world, and crunching the data through a MapReduce farm 24x7 to figure out what people are likely to be thinking and doing next. We'll know what you're likely to do before YOU do.
Peace,
Larry, Sergei, and Eric
Re:rev.3 - Spook Backdoors in Cisco Routers by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 18:03 · Score: 1

Jesus Christ, Dude - go type your thesis somewhere else.
for a second there I thought by ILongForDarkness · 2012-01-27 18:41 · Score: 1

Data Piracy Day and was thinking "yes". Everyone turn everything on to download stuff at the same time. Make those "legitament business use" people beg for mercy.
Why not February? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 23:35 · Score: 0

Sure, 4 days away from avoiding Black History Month!
What? by Mariomario · 2012-01-29 04:40 · Score: 1

Sometimes I feel like there is a computer that randomly puts a few words together, put a random day of the year, then tell everyone what to do for a day. I take all these "_____ _____ day" as a joke now. Along withe "___-____month" as a joke. I'm going to make Jan 31 Tell a secret day.