{"id":1042,"date":"2008-07-21T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2008-07-21T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:18:34","slug":"j-edgar-google-threatening-your-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/21\/j-edgar-google-threatening-your-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Edgar Google: Threatening Your Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting analysis of Google’s approach to privacy<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The author, Scott Cleland, summarizes his testimony before Congress thusly:<\/p>\n

Why Google’s the single biggest threat to Americans’ privacy today.<\/p>\n

Case Study: How Google Systematically Threatens Americans’ Privacy:
\n1. Google’s radical “publicacy” mission is antithetical to privacy.
\n2. Privacy is not a priority in Google’s culture.
\n3. Google gives privacy “lip service.”
\n4. Google threatens the privacy of more people than most any other
\nentity.
\n5. Google collects\/stores the most potential “blackmail-able”
\ninformation.
\n6. Google’s track record does not inspire trust.<\/p>\n

Information is power. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts
\nabsolutely. Google’s market power over private information is corrupting
\nGoogle, just like former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was corrupted by
\nhis power and mastery of personally-sensitive information. Google’s
\nunprecedented arbitrage of privacy law combined with its exceptional
\nlack of accountability is fast creating this era’s privacy-invading,
\nunaccountable equivalent: “J. Edgar Google.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More on this from me later, but I wanted to pass it on lest it get lost in the ever growing Draft Posts folder . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting analysis of Google’s approach to privacy.\u00c2\u00a0 The author, Scott Cleland, summarizes his testimony before Congress thusly: Why Google’s the single biggest threat to Americans’ privacy today. Case Study: How Google Systematically Threatens Americans’ Privacy: 1. Google’s radical “publicacy” mission is antithetical to privacy. 2. Privacy is not a priority in Google’s culture. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}