Comments on: US gov displays growing appetite for Twitter users' personal data http://boingboing.net/2013/01/28/us-gov-displays-growing-appeti.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 21:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Jangocat http://boingboing.net/2013/01/28/us-gov-displays-growing-appeti.html#comment-1640089 Jangocat Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:57:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209177#comment-1640089 The government doesn't need probable cause thanks to the idiots of this country supporting politicians enacting the patriot act. Most people in the US are too stupid to recognize the shear propaganda of the name patriot act. Nothing could be less patriotic then spying on your own citizens with no warrant. The government doesn’t need probable cause thanks to the idiots of this country supporting politicians enacting the patriot act. Most people in the US are too stupid to recognize the shear propaganda of the name patriot act. Nothing could be less patriotic then spying on your own citizens with no warrant.

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2013/01/28/us-gov-displays-growing-appeti.html#comment-1639919 Cowicide Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209177#comment-1639919 Gee, will we ever find out just WHY these entities want all this data from Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.?  Crime?  Sometimes... Quasi-governmental entities sure love everyone's personal data.  It can be used to get profitable business secrets.  Many Americans that don't protect/anonymize their business AND personal accounts are ripe for the picking. I've met these assholes.  These corporatist scum love nothing more than stealing your ideas/secrets right from under you.  There's entire industries set up to do this for other other businesses (highest bidders). You've been warned. Gee, will we ever find out just WHY these entities want all this data from Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.?  Crime?  Sometimes…

Quasi-governmental entities sure love everyone’s personal data.  It can be used to get profitable business secrets.  Many Americans that don’t protect/anonymize their business AND personal accounts are ripe for the picking.
I’ve met these assholes.  These corporatist scum love nothing more than stealing your ideas/secrets right from under you.  There’s entire industries set up to do this for other other businesses (highest bidders).

You’ve been warned.

]]> By: Michael Coyle http://boingboing.net/2013/01/28/us-gov-displays-growing-appeti.html#comment-1639720 Michael Coyle Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209177#comment-1639720 As a SAR volunteer for the past 12 years I wonder if some of those requests are done under missing person's cases. I'd like, for instance, to see a comparison between requests to ping a person's cell phone, bank account and credit card activity compared to the requests for data from the "new" ways to communicate. A simple comparison like this would tell us more about how the requests scale against those things that are traditionally used to track a person when it's for their own safety. Of course the phone and credit card activity traces are largely construed as invasion of privacy as well, but at least there's some very old legislation protecting it. It's probably harder to figure out those numbers since there are more phone companies, and there's just one Google, one Twitter... etc. As a SAR volunteer for the past 12 years I wonder if some of those requests are done under missing person’s cases. I’d like, for instance, to see a comparison between requests to ping a person’s cell phone, bank account and credit card activity compared to the requests for data from the “new” ways to communicate.

A simple comparison like this would tell us more about how the requests scale against those things that are traditionally used to track a person when it’s for their own safety. Of course the phone and credit card activity traces are largely construed as invasion of privacy as well, but at least there’s some very old legislation protecting it.

It’s probably harder to figure out those numbers since there are more phone companies, and there’s just one Google, one Twitter… etc.

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