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Story: Schmidt: Google may share user info with US gov't
Privacy issues online
What i find interesting about privacy laws online and specifically how the media seem to pick on google in this specific area is that the public have been giving this information up way before way the web was even a seed of though in Tim Berners Lee's mind. It seems that there is this massive media frenzy around protecting our online data and surfing habits when actually most people who use cash machines, credit cards, store cards, walk about in the street with CCTV (massive issue in the UK), using travel cards, flights, hotels and every day things are having this data collected and potentially accessed by governments in lots of countries around the world probably more so in the UK and US. So my opinion is that i agree its important to keep our online data private but if people are using the web for illegal purposes then governments asking google to release this is not a new area of concern.
I must stress i am against any government accessing our personal information without valid reason but constantly putting the web in the spotlight does not seem to me be in line with current every day privacy issues we already have.
Regards
Craig
http://forwebsake.blogspot.com
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