privacy – Page 5 – Dumpling in a Hanky

Unrecognised number

I don’t think I’ll be opting-in when these people call me up in the future. My mobile number is only given out to friends, or if essential, businesses that may need to contact me for something like a delivery time / date alteration.

My home number’s on TPS, I LIKE my privacy.

But…I can see the usefulness of a directory…

Then again, I don’t like my life being intruded into by a phone that I carry around with me, at least the landline is in a fixed location and I can walk away from it / ignore it, if you don’t answer your mobile people immediately assume you’re dead …hmmmm, dilemma.

Is it bad to want other people to join in, but not play myself?

Info originally in CILIP Weekly Information World 13 – 19 July 2007

Widening the privacy investigation

As posted on OUT-LAW yesterday, the Article 29 Working Party is expanding the scope of its investigation of search engine privacy practices beyond Google to ALL search engine companies, and their data retention practices.

Will be interesting to see what the other, smaller (and less media-targeted) companies policies are…

Google again

Honestly, I’m not obsessive, really, they just seem to be pretty active just now!
Google have opened up their internal blog on their public policies, to allow users to see what their views are on various important areas such as privacy, content regulation etc.
Which is pretty interesting, but I’ve got to say, I’m not sure I entirely trust any organisation when they say ‘look how honest and open we’re being’…probably cos I know there are very, very few of them who will be!
But it’s a pretty good attempt to make more transparent the internal workings of a section of a massive corporation.