Comments on: Privacy goes mainstream

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:11:56 +0000

I agree completely. Having a natural distrust of politicians is definitely a good habit. As you say, the improvement in terms of privacy is a good thing whether it was Hillary’s primary aim or not.

By: Gurdit

Gurdit — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:02:33 +0000

I don’t know whether she’s really concerned about privacy, or whether she’s taking advantage of the fact that Bush’s approval ratings fell drastically when the lack of privacy issue was brought up in the news.

However, bottom line is that privacy is improving, which is a good thing.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:33:40 +0000

On the same vane as the above article, Slashdot recently described the new Strong Privacy Bill that was introduced by the US Senate. It "protects protects the privacy of citizensâ€™ personal information in the face of data security breaches across the country", but interestingly enough, hidden right at the bottom of the bill is this: ...the provision in the measure that strengthens oversight of the government's use of commercial databases to collect information about citizens. This is very interesting, and suggests a fundamental change in the way the public and the Senate look at the Government saying "we can do what we want - your privacy isn't important as far as we're concerned". Now all we need is this kind of change in the UK...