Archive for February 19th, 2006

February 19, 2006: 6:34 pm: MatthewPolitical, Privacy

So TR wrote about the danger of Google’s ‘Search Across Computers’ function since it uploads files to a server you don’t control. Makes you wonder whose company data is finding its way up there, unknown to the appropriate internal watchdogs.

The EFF suggests Google take two steps - find a different way to implement the searches, and reform the law. Both are good ideas - it’s too bad they undermine them by suggesting an inappropriate solution (peer-to-peer) rather than letting Google figure it out.

: 6:28 pm: MatthewPolitical, Privacy, Pushing the Envelope, Technical

Interesting ponderings from Technology Review and IBM on Digital Identity. I’m still not clear why companies should be in control of the identity data and not the consumer. It may be a bit more effort, but I would prefer the exertion to losing control and showing all my accounts to any one provider.