Comments on: Surfing the Internet: Who’s Watching? Who’s Censoring? http://binarywolf.com/blog/2006/03/21/surfing-the-internet-whos-watching-whos-censoring/ Mensch Tracht und Gott Lacht - Filtering Views, News, Tips, Tricks and Temporal Anomalies Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:37:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Lance Cottrell http://binarywolf.com/blog/2006/03/21/surfing-the-internet-whos-watching-whos-censoring/#comment-335 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:52:44 +0000 http://binarywolf.com/blog/2006/03/21/surfing-the-internet-whos-watching-whos-censoring/#comment-335 One issue with trying to legslate open access to commercial information is the international nature of the Internet. The information could be gathered in one country, stored in another, sold in a third, and all relate to a user in a forth. Not that I oppose such efforts, but merely to point out that their impact may be less than one would hope. One issue with trying to legslate open access to commercial information is the international nature of the Internet. The information could be gathered in one country, stored in another, sold in a third, and all relate to a user in a forth.
Not that I oppose such efforts, but merely to point out that their impact may be less than one would hope.

]]> by: Nathan Gibbs http://binarywolf.com/blog/2006/03/21/surfing-the-internet-whos-watching-whos-censoring/#comment-329 Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:17:55 +0000 http://binarywolf.com/blog/2006/03/21/surfing-the-internet-whos-watching-whos-censoring/#comment-329 I agree it was an interesting discussion. They also pointed out that the government at least offers the Freedom of Information Act, so we can see what information they've collected on us. But there doesn't yet exist an Act like that that forces commercial companies like Google to reveal what data they've collected on us. If you have a gmail account, they track the searches you do specifically to your account, keep deleted emails. The "dot com" will become a more dangerous threat than the "dot gov." By the way, you may have seen me pass a few notes to Tom on stage because I was working at the event. Here are direct links to the podcast files: Part 1: http://www.kpbspodcast.org/thesedays/tds060322-1-ABC-Internet.mp3 Part 2: http://www.kpbspodcast.org/thesedays/tds060322-2-ABC-Internet.mp3 I agree it was an interesting discussion. They also pointed out that the government at least offers the Freedom of Information Act, so we can see what information they’ve collected on us. But there doesn’t yet exist an Act like that that forces commercial companies like Google to reveal what data they’ve collected on us. If you have a gmail account, they track the searches you do specifically to your account, keep deleted emails. The “dot com” will become a more dangerous threat than the “dot gov.”

By the way, you may have seen me pass a few notes to Tom on stage because I was working at the event. Here are direct links to the podcast files:

Part 1: http://www.kpbspodcast.org/thesedays/tds060322-1-ABC-Internet.mp3
Part 2: http://www.kpbspodcast.org/thesedays/tds060322-2-ABC-Internet.mp3

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