[120180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Bennett)
Fri Dec 11 15:43:45 2009
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:42:42 -0800
From: Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B22AD61.8060303@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Microsoft just wants your cash, but Google wants your personal
information so they can sell it over and over again. The entire Google
business model is at odds with notions of personal privacy, so it's not
even a question of the occasional excess on their part. Schmidt did what
Michael Kinsey calls a gaffe: when a politician accidentally tells the
truth.
On 12/11/2009 12:36 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Scott Weeks wrote:
>> --- math@sizone.org wrote:
>> From: Ken Chase <math@sizone.org>
>>
>> topically related, it's actually news from Mozilla:
>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142106/Mozilla_exec_suggests_Firefox_users_move_to_Bing_cites_Google_privacy_stance?source=rss_news
>>
>> from the horse's mouth, as it were.
>>
>> So, how bout that DNS.
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Um, yeah. Them there micro$loth folks is WAAAAYYYY more privacy
>> oriented than them google rascals.
>>
>
>
> It's better than the "maybe you shouldn't be doing things you don't
> want people to know about" statement. That right there gives me some
> insight on where Google wants to go in the future with privacy.
>
> ~Seth
>
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Richard Bennett
Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC
