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2010-12-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by gorb 2010-12-02 02:36|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Firefox.
Add-On
Ghostery
and of course AdBlock,
Some like Flashblock to block Flash "cookies".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-12-02 08:49|| 2010-12-02 08:49|| Front Page Top

#2 There has long been a need to confront the serious problem of personal information dossiers, databases and surveillance. This is because its ability to dehumanize and destroy has reached the level of an uncontrolled weapon, and one in the hands of people with evil and criminal intent, both domestic and foreign.

Add to that that there exists no data correction or verification authority for such information, and you have a disaster waiting to happen, accidental or intentional.

One possible solution would be to create a very tightly regulated commercial verification authority to act as a buffer between organizations and individuals.

This company would keep all of your relevant personal information, based on your providing them original documents, your fingerprints, retinal scans, voice print, DNA, writing samples, educational, medical and dental records, bank and employment records, etc.

Then, when any other corporation demanded these things, you would refer them to your account with this company. They would *not* provide this information to others except in a very narrow way, and only confirm that it existed and was legitimate.

Otherwise, that other company had no "need to know".

On top of this, once it performed to this standard, a law would be needed to protect people with such accounts, that they could not be compelled to provide information except through the verification authority, solely so they could engage in business.

In addition, even the US and State governments would be excluded from unnecessary dossiers and databases outside of those of a criminal or contract nature.

As things stand right now, most cabinet level agencies, and many other agencies and offices, have in their possession databases of personal information about citizens, very redundant and often incorrect, though they have no legitimate reason for doing so.

Once an individual had chosen to put his information with a verification authority, his name would by force of law be removed from government and commercial records. This would make data aggregation and mining for illegitimate reasons much more difficult.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-02 09:58|| 2010-12-02 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Firefox. Add-On Ghostery and of course AdBlock, Some like Flashblock to block Flash "cookies".

Irrelevant to this technology.

Posted by gorb 2010-12-02 10:58|| 2010-12-02 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 ..making the devices the equivalent of a disposable razor would make the tracking and compiling very expensive.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-12-02 12:29|| 2010-12-02 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 > Irrelevant to this technology.

rubbish.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-12-02 20:35|| 2010-12-02 20:35|| Front Page Top

#6 reading the comment of anonymoose above i am very much reminded of someone i know here in town that claims to be a 'serious Conservative' yet to him all problems are 'fixed' with a large (and usually very convoluted and oppressive) new government program or agency. his 'solutions' are in general not all that different than my 'flaming liberal' mother's and boil down to something along the line of "the government needs to make you do it, and take away your money/freedom/livelihood/ability to work,vote,or travel if you do not comply."
the solution is usually also sold as 'simple' or 'cheaper' than simple enforcement of current regulations or a return to a set of regulations that did work - which is the essence of true Conservativism IMHO.

no direct offense intended 'moose. just keep getting tickled when i read stuff like above and think of that particular jackwagon.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-12-02 20:56|| 2010-12-02 20:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Abu: I was very careful to describe this as a tightly regulated commercial service. The people who used it would also need a law protecting their right to their own "personal information control."

The role of government in this is strictly limited, to insure that the verification company did not misuse the data.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-02 23:11|| 2010-12-02 23:11|| Front Page Top

#8 yes, did not mean to imply otherwise. i think it was the complex robust-ness of your comment that set me off and i just got a chuckle thinking of that other guy. yours is private but with him it alwaysstarts with "now you know how conservative i am" then pulls out a giant rube goldberg contraption filled with new byzantine bureaucracies that deny basic freedoms - usually with draconian punishments for non-compliance such as opting out. crazy thing is he is a school teacher.

maybe compared to his coworkers he is conservative. his wife and mine sometimes have social activities that overlap. listening to him talk about the teacher lounge etc is one of the major reasons i am glad we home-school.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-12-02 23:24|| 2010-12-02 23:24|| Front Page Top

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