The way they are going on they will be telling us what to eat next! --- On Thu, 2/5/09, Steve Haywood <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Steve Haywood <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Am I paranoid? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 12:21 PM 2009/2/5 Bruce Napier <br...@nbsanity. me.uk> > Am I alone in finding the new Google Latitude service a bit creepy? > If you sign up to it, Google will know where you are all the time, as > well as all the other stuff they hold about your habits. > I don't think you're being paranoid at all. I won't go into them all, but there are a whole raft of government-inspired initiatives which libertarian groups have complained of as being potentially intrusive of personal liberty. The last thing we want now is for private companies to go blundering ahead with developments in new technology without any concern as to their potentially repressive use. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
