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Using Privacy Against Us

Started by Nick O'Neill · 8 months ago

The demise of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s political career illustrates the perils of thinking we’re not being watched. Of course, it also illustrates the perils of arrogance and stupidity, which usually fell the mighty well before technology or privacy implications kick in. ... Continue reading »

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  • MartinEdic

    8 months ago

    As a person coming from a social media monitoring and analytics company, this post has a lot of relevance. We collect millions of social media conversations daily and save that data. It is all publicly available information- we don't break EULAs or hack through password protected private areas. Yet many social media participants fail to understand that they are not only speaking publicly, they are broadcasting their speech. Even if you go back and delete that less than brilliant Twitter tweet we still have it, as do others. It's no different than standing on a soapbox yelling your inner life to a crowd- except the crowd can get much bigger and there's a permanent record...
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  • Andrew Mirsky

    7 months ago

    Martin, thanks for this perspective. This is very interesting, I was actually not aware that the type of service you provide even existed!! Makes sense that it would be out there, of course. Also makes any serious reliance - by the posters, for example - on the EULAs of sites like Facebook somewhat risky. Although I guess that was my larger point, but you added a really excellent practical perspective. Andy Mirsky
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