[_] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social data mining exercise
Tom Gidden
tom at gidden.net
Wed Jan 2 14:26:40 GMT 2008
On 2 Jan 2008, at 14:05, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > Facebook is backed by a VC which is backed by the CIA/American > Government, as other's have said - the CIA could barely organise > information in a single filing cabinet - the FBI are the brains, the > CIA are the brawn - fortunately, on the whole the FBI are worried > about actual crime. Yep, totally agree. Plus, as any self-respecting tin-foil-hatter would say, if the CIA were *really* involved (if they could be bothered, that is), the relationship would be far more obfuscated, as overt surveillance on US citizens is outside their remit, and IIRC, illegal. In the old days, that was J. Edgar Hoover's job. :) > The National Identity Register needs to be destroyed. > > The NHS Spine needs to be broken up and secured adequately, with > patients giving consent rather than having to opt out, all security > breaches being disclosed and data only being shared as required rather > than > 50 staff poking about in a celebrities confidential files > because they heard he/she was in the hospital. > > There are very real and serious problems that we face in the UK, just > ask the data commisioner, facebook isn't one of them. Funnily enough, I was reminded of these exact issues a couple of weeks ago, while watching a 28-year-old sitcom episode, which framed the issue quite nicely... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_%28Yes_Minister%29 Tom -- Tom Gidden http://gidden.net/tom/