reizak on 3/7/2008 at 16:39
I just had BBC's headlines for the day beamed into my inbox, and something rather curious was among the top stories:
* Google must divulge YouTube log *
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court rules.
Full story: (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/technology/7488009.stm)
I tend to not bother getting very upset about privacy issues anymore, because it seems that in this day and age more and more of this sort of thing is all we can expect, but usually at least governments and courts limit themselves to just pissing on their own citizens' rights. I can't say I'm very happy about some US court deciding their businesses can online-stalk me because someone uploads football match clips to YouTube, or whatever the hell they think their justification is.
I've never studied law, but shouldn't I at least have to click through some "By accessing this site I give the right for Viacom Inc. to study my viewing habits" gateway first?
More details at (
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/court-ruling-will-expose-viewing-habits-youtube-us) EFF.
Koki on 3/7/2008 at 18:28
Did I post about ACTA here? I think I did.
I think I should move to Russia. China also looks better, at least the government doesn't play-pretend.
Also, I wouldn't want to be the dude who's going to be checking 12 terabytes of logs.
Gingerbread Man on 3/7/2008 at 22:14
you kids and your tinfoil hats
catbarf on 3/7/2008 at 22:22
Well, at least it's the Internet. There's plenty of ways to disguise yourself (I'm paranoid. I go for a shotgun approach).
In the same theme, for real life, you could make a (
http://www.hackosis.com/index.php/2008/06/19/video-how-to-make-an-invisible-camera-mask/) camera invisibility hat. A fun little DIY project. Bonus points if you attach speakers to blast high-frequency noise as loudly as possible to piss off teenagers.
The_Raven on 3/7/2008 at 22:29
Quote Posted by =Koki
Also, I wouldn't want to be the dude who's going to be checking 12 terabytes of logs.
Chances are that they'll have an intelligent agent do the footwork and notify "real people" of anything that meets the search criteria.
Yakoob on 3/7/2008 at 22:59
Quote Posted by The_Raven
Chances are that they'll have an intelligent agent do the footwork and notify "real people" of anything that meets the search criteria.
grep
The_Raven on 4/7/2008 at 01:17
That would work, too. I just figured that a proper data mining agent would be the way to go.
