[120254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Dec 14 08:14:44 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: beckman@angryox.com (Peter Beckman)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:13:55 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912111542310.72778@nog.angryox.com> from "Peter
Beckman" at Dec 11, 2009 03:57:10 PM
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> If you aren't breaking the law, the government won't be looking for your
> data, and won't ask Google/Yahoo/Bing/AltaVista or other search companies
> for your data.
This seems overly optimistic. Remember the whole telecom fiasco?
Even if you are breaking the law in some mild way, do you really want
the government to be using toll records or traffic-cams to enforce
speeding laws, etc?
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
