"Give Bill Gates your 'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,' and he'll improve your 'quality of life.' That's the promise behind a patent issued Thursday to Bill Gates and his 20 co-inventors for 'Personal Data Mining', which Microsoft notes 'can include a monetization component' that 'could initiate an auction to sell information to the highest bidder.'"
Webtapping refers to the practice of logging the IP addresses of users that access certain websites. Though it is allowed by the PATRIOT Act, it is considered by many to be at the very least a questionable practice, if not an all-out violation of civil liberties. [edit—WikiPedia] This blog discusses privacy and security matters in the era of Social Networking, Blogging, WiFi, hosted emails and files and the Patriot Act and the Great Firewall of China.
Friday, 5 February 2010
Microsoft to auction you're personal information?
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