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Cory Doctorow On Privacy and Oversharing
slash-sa writes with a link to an opinion piece from Cory Doctorow that begins: "The European Parliament is currently involved in a wrangle over the new General Data Protection Regulation. At stake are the future rules for online privacy, data mining, big data, governmental spying (by proxy), to name a few. Hundreds of amendments and proposals are on the table, including some that speak of relaxing the rules on sharing data that has been "anonymised" (had identifying information removed) or "pseudonymised" (had identifiers replaced with pseudonyms). This is, however, a very difficult business, with researchers showing how relatively simple techniques can be used to re-identify the data in large anonymised data sets, by picking out the elements of each record that make them unique."
What? You mean a writer on boing boing is a hypocrite when it comes to privacy and censorship issues? Shocking.......
If you overshare, then every script-kiddie on the planet will be able to hack your life.
No law available to our Fearless Leaders can prevent abuse of the system by our National Security Industry. Forget about any sort of reigning in of the God-given Rights of our Owners.
Vote as if it mattered. Ha-Haa!
They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule.
He's listed on the Masthead as a founding member. I don't know what better credentials are needed to call it "his site". Should I have said "his commercial site" and then in subtext mentioned "his personal blog"?
moox. for a new generation.
Yeah I had to say the irony is moist and delicious when the guy banging the drum for Internet privacy has the largest number of red flags from PrivDog I have ever seen at 10, hell the porn sites don't have that much damned tracking!
Ya know as much as I hate RMS that is one thing I'll give him credit for, i went to his website and there is ZERO tracking going on, it was 100% tracker free. I found that refreshing and it was nice to see there are still some that walk the walk and not just talk the talk.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.