Comments on: Real-Time Privacy http://www.realityprime.com/articles/real-time-privacy Advanced Technology Research Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:10:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ira http://www.realityprime.com/articles/real-time-privacy/comment-page-1#comment-13866 Ira Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:26:14 +0000 http://www.realityprime.com/?p=288#comment-13866 We each leave dozens of computer records of our locations and activities every day as we use our cellphones, credit cards and Internet connections. Google's <i>Latitude</i><i> takes this tech trend to the next level so family and friends can opt-in and track each other. It is legal for the government, with a warrant, to seize business records with personal info, and even make it public. (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/madoffclientlist020409.pdf" rel="nofollow">for example</a> clients of Bernie Madoff, including one in my community and a bunch named "Ira".) More troubling is when NSA computers do network analysis and listen in on phone calls and internet traffic and "gist" for words and phrases that might indicate criminal or terrorist planning. As the bad guys go high-tech I guess the good guys have to follow suit. Beyond that, I agree with you we each have an ownership interest in data that identifies us personally. We should be given an opportuity to opt-in and get a cut of the fees companies charge for it. Also, if any organization or person pays a fee to access our daily path and activities, we should get a free alert with *their* name and location.</i> We each leave dozens of computer records of our locations and activities every day as we use our cellphones, credit cards and Internet connections. Google’s Latitude takes this tech trend to the next level so family and friends can opt-in and track each other.

It is legal for the government, with a warrant, to seize business records with personal info, and even make it public. (for example clients of Bernie Madoff, including one in my community and a bunch named “Ira”.) More troubling is when NSA computers do network analysis and listen in on phone calls and internet traffic and “gist” for words and phrases that might indicate criminal or terrorist planning. As the bad guys go high-tech I guess the good guys have to follow suit.

Beyond that, I agree with you we each have an ownership interest in data that identifies us personally. We should be given an opportuity to opt-in and get a cut of the fees companies charge for it. Also, if any organization or person pays a fee to access our daily path and activities, we should get a free alert with *their* name and location.

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