January 28 is Data Privacy Day

An anonymous reader writes "A bit early, but just a reminder that January 28 is international Data Privacy Day in the U.S., Canada, and many European countries. Various events are being held around the globe: the head of the FTC opened a weekend forum on the topic by calling out Facebook and Google, the Ontario Privacy Commissioner is holding a symposium on 'Surveillance by Design', and of course Google recently announced they'll be tracking you more thoroughly in the future."

Does that mean no posting on slashdot?

[cshark]

Darn

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[Anonymous Coward]

Not to worry. You can borrow my account.

January 28 is international Data Privacy Day

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

SSSHHH!! Don't tell anyone!

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[Sulphur]

No thanks.

The recount is hell.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Switching from Google to something like DuckDuckGo could also be worthy.

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[countertrolling]

Cut it out with that spamming shit... They're no different than anybody else.

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[countertrolling]

Have a better suggestion?

The only trustworthy option is to run your own web crawler. And even then you can't trust your service provider not to spy on you. In light of this, short answer is 'no'.

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[countertrolling]

Well, we might able to introduce privacy on the internet when we are able to cut ourselves free of AT&T's wire. For now sneakernet is the only way

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[countertrolling]

DuckDuckGo has a mention of data privacy day on their frontpage...

And I have some beautiful Florida swampland for sale that's worth ten times any internet 'privacy' policy you can dredge up

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'll bite. They got free email, calendar, shared docs, office suite, photo album hosting, chat network, with my friends on it, mapping system and drive traffic to my site?

A momentous occasion

[geminidomino]

I'm sure it will be properly celebrated by the stakeholders at Google, Zynga, Apple, Facebook, and USGov sitting in their offices and giggling quietly to themselves throughout the day.

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[the eric conspiracy]

Yes, pretty much. I've decided that since I'm going to be ass-raped in this fashion I might as well profit by it so I'm well invested in companies that exploit customer data to the max.

Can't wait for the Facebook IPO. Boo-Ya.

Stop it already.

[Stumbles]

Just how many $TRUMPED_UP_LAME_ASS days do we need in any given year? If elected President of the USA I will sign an executive order making it illegal to declare anymore $TRUMPED_UP_LAME_ASS days.

Re:Stop it already.

[somersault]

I declare January 29th, "No More Trumped Up Lame Ass Days Day". Also, it's my sister's birthday.

Re:Stop it already.

[somersault]

I know. That's why I hid some AIDS in there.

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[godrik]

I, hereby, declare january 29th "birthday of somersault's sister day"!
At least we will have a "something-day" one person gives shit about.

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[flimflammer]

It is getting a bit excessive.

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[countertrolling]

Just how many $TRUMPED_UP_LAME_ASS days do we need in any given year?

Happy Love Day, everyone!

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[VortexCortex]

Those donkeys deserve some respect, despite any recent injury. I believe the correct question is: "How many ~8.7 day increments in a year can be devoid of all but one holiday?" As you might suspect... the answer has already been derived.

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[Zontar The Mindless]

Thank you for raising the bar for TL;DR.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus Christ, Dude - go type your thesis somewhere else.

Google privacy challenge accepted.

[RandomAvatar]

As long as the website tells the truth in its privacy policy, https://ixquick.com/ [ixquick.com] will be more secure than Google.

there is also DuckDuckGo

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[heypete]

They don't need to, so long as DDG does and you don't search for personally-identifying things about yourself.

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[allo]

ddg sets no cookies with unique ids, so they cannot really track you for longer than to the next ip change (so approximate 24 hours only)

January 28 is Data Privacy Day

[Foxhoundz]

...or lack thereof.

Lock it up

[Whiteox]

OTOH if you restrict access to your website (IP Deny) how can they skim the data?

Data? What data? There is no data...

[jonadab]

There is only XUL.

for a second there I thought

[ILongForDarkness]

Data Piracy Day and was thinking "yes". Everyone turn everything on to download stuff at the same time. Make those "legitament business use" people beg for mercy.

What?

[Mariomario]

Sometimes I feel like there is a computer that randomly puts a few words together, put a random day of the year, then tell everyone what to do for a day. I take all these "_____ _____ day" as a joke now. Along withe "___-____month" as a joke. I'm going to make Jan 31 Tell a secret day.