A recent discussion on privacy yeilded a few data mining rogues.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/and-privacy-invasion-award-goes-toWho’s playing fast and loose with your data? The Big Brother Awards, billed as the “Oscars for data leeches” by the hackers and privacy advocates who hand out the prizes, shine a high-intensity spotlight on companies and individuals with poor privacy track records. Since 1998, Privacy International and a host of affiliated organizations have singled out the worst privacy violators in various countries including the UK, Austria, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Japan, New Zealand and the U.S. The title evokes the totalitarian cult personality featured in George Orwell’s 1984, set in a dystopic world of mass surveillance.
Same old corporations and personalities, when will they stop acting in such an immoral manner ?
