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Silicon Valley Execs Will Meet on Wednesday To Discuss Privacy (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss how to tackle growing questions and concerns about consumer privacy online. The Information Technology Industry Council, a Washington trade group that represents major tech companies, organized an all-day meeting to jump-start the conversations. Members include Facebook, Google, Apple, Salesforce, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, Dropbox, and others. ITI expects the meeting to be attended by companies across the industry's sectors, including hardware, software and device makers -- but declined to say which companies would be there.
By invitation only.
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Will the meeting be held in private? Because holding a public meeting on privacy would defeat the point. A meeting regarding privacy should be held behind closed doors for privacy.
Hahahahahaha!
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Hahahahahaha!
OMG, please stop, my side hurts.....
The thieves of my personal information meeting to discuss stealing my personal information.....
Ahahahahahahaha!
The Modern Day Hole in the Wall Gang.
A meeting of the foxes to discuss henhouse security.
For most of the companies listed, their entire business model is predicated on watching and recording every click and pageview online, and converting that into advertising (or selling that activity to other advertisers).
These companies can't possibly be trusted to guard our privacy, as our private behavior is their business.
They are going to discus how to invade our privacy while APPEARING like they are not...
meet to talk about PRISM?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
By giving me control.
That is the opposite of the entire business model of Google Fuckbook Twitland Fruitcorp..
It is the opposite of where most people gravitate: it is easier for someone else to do everything for me!
There has been a war on personal computing. A wholesale transfer of control from end users to megacorps. That will always be inconsistent with privacy. $BIGGOV $BIGCORP will always always want to strip mine your life.
To have privacy I must have control, myself. I must be able to store my photos on my own device, not in your data center. I must be able to send them E2E encrypted to my friend, without you in the middle. I must control the entire mechanisms of personal computing from the ground up on my own devices and hardware.
That is the opposite of the world most have pushed hard to get. Because it's soooooo easy to let Google have all my mail and Fuckbook have all my pictures...
There is one item on the agenda:
"How do we get government to stop bothering us about privacy?"
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
How many people does it take to sit around a board room and say "yes, we are all for privacy as long as you aren't keeping things private from us" ... then a round of "harrumph harrumph" .... Then they agree to make the data available between the members of their group and in all outward facing meetings appear adversarial about sharing information with anyone ;)
It's funny, because all of the people making all of our data available to the government and to all of their internal processes and partners also oppose Donald trump ...
Push encrypted email support across all tech companies.
This is kind of like a bunch of men getting together to discuss wife beating issues.
The solution is obvious...stop doing it.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Why the wink? That's probably exactly how it works.
>> Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss how to tackle growing questions and concerns about consumer privacy online.
Read that carefully: "government affairs officers" - this is lobbyists saying the only way to suppress the voice of the people (and avoid new regulation and ongoing enforcement) regarding privacy is to hire MOAR lobbyists.
Apparently some people still have some. They will be working diligently to rectify that.
Privacy is very important to these forms. The data they collect on you is private, and should not be shared with you.
The data they collect on your friends is private, and should not be shared by them or you.
The data collect from your files, emails, photos is private, and should not be known to you.
The people they share your data with is private, and should not be known to you.
Your files and data however, are fully public, and can be shared to anyone, everyone.
Privacy matters, it's just not your privacy that matters to them.
Nothing new here, if its private its all about self interests in growing their bonuses. Plain and simple...
"How can we get them to stop?"
#DeleteChrome
Before all the plebs wake up that we 1%ers sold all the horses to China for pennies on the dollar..
Don't forget, to them, we are the product they sell to corporations, not the customer.
It's only in the Western US, Canada, and the EU/UK that governments are willing to insist on privacy rights.
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"Let's see... We care about our privacy (especially of the money we make), and not one bit about our data mines, I mean the consumers. Agreed?"
"Agreed."
"Meeting adjourned."
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San Francisco is the worst city in America. I don't envy anyone who has to go to this meeting.
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The news is sitting next to Another one about AT&T. Perhaps they should invite AT&T executives?
have they lost all common sense, that they need to discuss this? they can't figure it out on their own?
i think the real reason for this meeting is something very, very different (in their advantage).
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.