After being neck deep in privacy and data protection legislations, I finally think I can start bloggin’ again. The last few weeks have been quite busy that saw me shuffling pages of privacy acts, defining processes and trying to make world a better place in general.
Archive for June, 2007
The much knowledgeable computer hardware geek Chris has written a blog post on Google and Privacy. A subject that has taken up most of my free time for the last few weeks. A subject that I have been most inclined to write about, but never actually got down to scribble something. A subject that I have worked on for the last few years. So now that I have something to rant about, I’ll let my thoughts flow. The article discusses Google owned applications such as Gmail, Adsense and Gtalk etc more from a ’single point of failure’ perspective than from the privacy angle. Privacy breach is not limited to someone getting into your account and stealing away your information. Privacy breach is misusing Google for google-hacks and collecting, processing and disseminating personally identifiable information without consent. Being a techie or geek helps you being safe on public networks such as Internet. It protects you from virus, trojans and known malicious activities on the Internet. It helps you filter between legitimate emails and phishing attacks. But does it help you protect your privacy to a safe limit? The answer from my experience is NO. Continue reading ‘Google & Privacy’
Not many people are happy with Google Maps Street View’s street level cameras that show pictures of people at various locations. The pictures were clearly taken without the consent of the subject, and hence have raised eyebrows in many of the privacy conscious countries such as EU Union, UK and Australia.
After almost a week long jing bang in Rajasthan Gujjars finally thought it was enough. The community called off their protest after meeting with the chief minister. In today’s age when every multinational company is trying to set up a base in Gurgaon, such protests obviously demonstrate the fragile socio-political conditions and discourage these companies. It’s high time that the Haryana government steps in and shows some responsibility for handling such situations in future.
