Posts by clarinette02 3 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Dec 2009
My question is: Why
Would you like a webcam in your bedrooms and bathrooms broadcasting live?!! The answer should measure the balance of risk / security. The burden on the company is the keep the device secure, to advise buyers and to notify data breach. http://clarinettesblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/would-you-like-a-webcam-in-your-bedrooms-and-bathrooms-broadcating-live/
Your position is the perfect demonstration of why so many, including myself, have been warning against the invasive Googlopoly.
Now of course, you seem to have more information than we do judging that no information was personal data.According to the UK DPA ' “personal data” means data which relate to a living individual who can be identified—
(a) from those data, or
(b) from those data and other information which is in the possession of,or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller,
and includes any expression of opinion about the individual and any indication of the intentions of the data controller or any other person in respect of the individual;"
Are we sure emails contents, passwords,... were not personal data? Maybe they were Sensitive data. Is not password what allows anyone to access a network?
Of course, Google won't do Evil, but...haven't we seen recently a Google employee caught, as admitted by Google, doing evil games with some data? more in http://clarinettesblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/news-of-the-day/
Dr Eric Schmidt is very clever and wise. Has he changed his mind?
In July 2009, few months ago, he was wise enough to declare:
Eric Shmidt Interview Juky 2009: "I don't think anyone wants everything revealed. That's why we have doors and shades and so forth. "
"behavior of PPL online when theyR teenagers isn't D sortofthing Dat theywant2know when Dey Rmature adults in leadership positions"
"...I have a specific suggestion that it should be common & legal to change Your name at 21 and say, "That wasn't me. It was a different person"
"I'm very strongly in favor of an individuals right of privacy but I'm very suspicious about Governments ..."
"...our Company makes a commitment to people to respect people's privacy and their personal information because it's central to the trust ..."
Read the entire interview transcript of Eric Schmidt for Marketplace in July 2009 http://bit.ly/EN1PB
Dan Solove: "'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy" http://bit.ly/NtYuE answers E Schmidt
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