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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Hype Alert: NPR: Making Permanent Digital Records
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Hype Alert: NPR: Making Permanent Digital Records Not So Permanent
http://j.mp/THeVdx (NPR)
"The Internet is forever - and so are texts, tweets and Facebook
updates - but a startup has big ambitions to bring privacy and
impermanence to online communication. The company, called Wickr, lets
users decide how long a message lives."
- - -
Hype Alert: These sorts of stories are, basically, total farces.
There are no messages, images, etc. that you can send to another party
that cannot be preserved by them indefinitely -- with a digital camera
if nothing else. Claims of self-destructing messages and other data
in these contexts are misleading hype.
--Lauren--
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