FTC May Cast A Closer Eye On How Businesses Share Personal Data 72
Personal information shared by users with corporate websites is nothing new; you probably routinely log in to sites to which you've provided information about your age and location, or provided a credit card number in order to buy merchandise. At least sometimes, some of that information is shared in ways that the typical user would probably neither anticipate nor appreciate. David Vladeck, new head of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, has signaled recently that he's interested in tighter regulation of personal information shared online, even when it falls under the often-sweeping language of privacy agreements and sites' terms of use. An interview at the New York Times provides some insight into the regulatory environment that companies operating online may face in the course of the present administration — and it looks more stringent than online businesses have faced before, even while Vladeck shies away from saying that he supports "new rules."
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how they use linux without any drivers that work? I can't print a damn thing!
Notice the semantical difference between "I can not" and "it does not"?
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System specs:
Intel Core Duo 2.4GHz
1 GB RAM
OS: Microsoft Windows XP
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remove windowsXP, install a complete GNU/Linux desktop including cups and foomatic filters and ghostscript-fonts, the open a terminal and do" sudo cupsd and then try that link again
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Re:Can someone please explain (Score:4, Insightful)
Wouldn't it be fun if that's how they taught you a new language in schools?
Hand you an English to Chinese dictionary (but without phonetics) and then punch you in the face whenever you made a mistake?
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You must be new here; on Slashdot, we are all capable of installing Linux and getting a printer working without breaking a sweat. But we won't tell you how, because learning how to do figure it out yourself that is more important that just having us tell you what to do.
In other words, you don't know either.
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1. My sarcasm meter is working fine. Slashdot is just not a good conductor of sarcasm.
2. If he's a troll, why didn't they mod him troll instead of flamebait?
But that wasn't why I replied the way I did. I'm just really sensitive to people replying to questions with something that isn't even an attempt at an answer. And what drives me even more crazy than that is when they reply to an answer with a link to a Google search that supposedly will return the answer. As if we're just all supposed to depend on Googl
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Well, let's start with the basics. Did you plug the goddamned printer in YOU MORON?!?!?!
(Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! What idiots - I intended to shout!)
I'm from the government... (Score:2, Insightful)
Please show me your RFID passport, give your liquids to the nice man from the TSA, and tell me your social-security number so I can enter it into my laptop.
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gtfo tard
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"so my self-esteem is not predicated on how popular I perceive myself to be"
How commendable. I can relate to that. I could relate even more, if you were willing to sign your name, anonymous COWARD.
Meanwhile - I've downloaded the PDF containing the law being discussed everywhere. It is neither the abandonment of the elderly that Sarah Bigmouth Palin claims it to be, nor is it the end-all be-all cure for everything that ails us.
With 1018 pages, it's going to take some time to digest all of it, but so far,
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Still a coward. I won't even read your posts you worthless bag of bigot garbage. Put your name up or be ignored.
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Yes.. Ad Hominem... what you've been doing since your first post.
stfu child. your mouth gets bigger with every scoop from the silver spoon.
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How you describe Obama fanatics (and equate that minority to all supporters or 'liberals/progressives') demonstrates just how bigoted and shallow your view of people is. Of course I will attack you if your blathering resembles blatant ignorance and intolerance.
Did you get a boner over Bush being a 'strong leader' while missing all his big muckups? Better yet, how great was it to watch John McCain sell his soul and backbone for GOP support and flip flop about 100x more than Kerry ever did?
But I"m not sayin
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Ahhh.. I see how you can be so blatant.. you post as an Anonymous Coward. Its nice that slashdot knows to call you out on that.
Put your name up. You talk tuff and boisterous when you've got a veil to hide behind.
pfft... you mean nothing.
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Is this what passes for a counter argument now days?
Anon: 1, Jooce: 0
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If you understood communism you wouldn't look so stupid.
Sorry if this seems like flamebait, but this anonymous coward obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.
I can't talk to an idiot who doesn't know the meanings of words he even says.
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. . . give your liquids to the nice man from the TSA . . .
"I refuse to give them my 'precious bodily fluids'" - General Jack Ripper
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. . . give your liquids to the nice man from the TSA . . .
"I refuse to give them my 'precious bodily fluids'" - General Jack Ripper
You don't avoid the TSA, you just refuse them your essence.
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Can we please give the government a little credit when they at least try to start trying to do the right thing? Is that too much trouble?
Would the FTC even have thought of anything like this during the last administration? Personally, after a decade of corporate anal rampage, I'm happy to see consumer protection starting to make a comeback. At least it's a step in the right direction.
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Privacy invasions certainly are not what they used to be. Now trained psychologists, in fact people with doctrates, work on wasy to manipulate peoples choices on an individual basis not for the benefit of the people they are manipulating but for greater profits for corporations. It is hard to tell those psychologists that worked with tortures to make that torture more effective of those psychologists who try to manipulate societies to feed the greed of a minority regardless of the the harm, they know, not
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Neither a fan of Bush nor Obama here - pretty ambivalent. But you'd be kidding yourself if you didn't think each administration wasn't doing what they thought was the right thing with respect to issues like this.
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Neither a fan of Bush nor Obama here - pretty ambivalent. But you'd be kidding yourself if you didn't think each administration wasn't doing what they thought was the right thing with respect to issues like this.
Well, yes... but under Bush, "What was right" was "If you don't have anything to hide, why do you need privacy?" Fear of terr'rists was used to bully Americans into giving up their expectation of privacy in their everyday lives. At the same time, corporate regulation was almost a swear-word.
This move is definitely in a different direction, and it's one I think we've needed for a loooooong time. Why should only health care providers be required to protect your personal info?
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To be clear, I was responding to HangingChad's plea for credit to the Obama administration. It had nothing to do with whether I thought the policy should or shouldn't have been as it is or was, for either administration, but whether the administration was trying to do the right thing. Both tried. You agree that one got it right, and the other didn't. Fine. I probably even agree with you. But credit is deserved for anybody who tries to do the right thing, and both administrations deserve credit for that. If HangingChad wants to provide general praise for that sort of thing, he shouldn't talk out of both sides of his/her mouth.
Well, it depends on who is defining "the right thing." Yes, everyone, individually, is trying to do what they think is "right." When an undiagnosed schizophrenic kills someone because god told them to, they're "trying to do the right thing." When Harry Truman ordered the first and last nuclear strikes on live targets, he was "trying to do the right thing." When John Scopes taught his class about evolution, he was "trying to do the right thing." The public opinion may or may not agree with the individual
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...and I'm here to help you protect your privacy.
Please show me your RFID passport, give your liquids to the nice man from the TSA, and tell me your social-security number so I can enter it into my laptop.
1) That's what this [thinkgeek.com] is for.
2) My liquids don't really say much about me that's personally identifiable.
3) "The government" is pretty explicit on just how your SSN should NOT be used as an identifier except by very particular agencies, and never as a password. The folks who violate this premise most frequently are private businesses who want to make sure they can tell on you to the credit agencies if they decide you owe them money. While there have been cases of laptops containing personally identifiable
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Next step... (Score:5, Funny)
"Hi. We noticed that your spouse has been buying a lot of condoms/birth control pills, lube and motel rooms within 25 miles of your home. Can we interest you in our "Super Slueth" private investigation package?"
Yaddah yaddah.
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"Hi. I'm a representative of the foreign subsidiary of a major US telecom company that handles customer support offshore. We have compiled a list of phone numbers that frequenly contact certain exchanges in Langely, Virginia. We can make this list available to you for a small fee.
Das vidanye, comrade."
Whoops. Too late. That stuff has been for sale for some time now.
Best practices (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm un-characteristically proud of what the government of Canada did in the Privacy Act [justice.gc.ca], and the creation of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner [priv.gc.ca].
Of course, it's not perfect, but It's pretty good. Especially compared to what I see in the rest of the world.
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Which doesn't work any better than anywhere else in the western world.
Stolen this, Phorm that, misplaced everything else.
tell us...who is in jail after violating these 'data protection laws'? What companies and CEOs have been shut down?
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Wow, you mean like the data protection laws that Europe has had for decades?
Your bank details belong to us [edri.org], well since Sept 2001 anyway, almost a decade.
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Your bank details belong to us
I believe the correct wording is "All your bank are belong to us"
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This can't be true. Fox News just had a number of canada analysts on that directly said that most canadians hate their privacy acts and systems for personal information protection.
Are you telling me that Fox would put up with paying someone who would lie to me about reality?
Lip Service (Score:3)
This is window dressing and nothing more. Vladeck himself says he doesn't favor more legislation. This is theater of the absurd because the FTC cares about our privacy about as much as they do about spam.
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I can pretty much guarantee that a significant amount of spam would go away if companies were fined for paying spammers to advertise. It's not going to deal with phis