On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> The initial EU analysis is here but rather dry reading: > > http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/studies/final_report_india_en.pdf > > The bigger question anyway is control and enforcement (by the company and > by the authorities) And there is little hope that privacy rules will be enforced by the public walking away from companies and organizations that have demonstrated questionable behavior in this aspect. Privacy awareness with the general public appears to be non-existing. At least in The Netherlands people are willing to give up privacy in return of a suggested possible simplification of finding criminals or chance on small financial reward. We seem to have no issues with collecting DNA profiles from every citizen, keeping detailed phone and email records for 18 months, uncontrolled remote metering of gas, water and electricity, etc. Rob (yes, that's a tin foil hat I'm wearing) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
