Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:51:33AM +0530, Gautam John wrote: Saw this via BB: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/ It's their official Public Policy blog. I rather read http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ too bad it's down again. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-19 Thread Charles Haynes
On 6/19/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:51:33AM +0530, Gautam John wrote: Saw this via BB: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/ It's their official Public Policy blog. I rather read http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ too bad it's down again. You can still

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-19 Thread Madhu Menon
Charles Haynes wrote: I rather read http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ too bad it's down again. You can still read it using Google's cached copies. I am just imagining Charles saying this with a deadpan expression and laughing my arse off! :) Madhu -- * Madhu Menon Shiok Far-eastern

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Madhu Menon said the following on 19/06/2007 12:07: I am just imagining Charles saying this with a deadpan expression and laughing my arse off! And I just parsed that as you saying you imagined Charles laughing your arse off. Don't visualise

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-19 Thread Madhu Menon
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:34:29PM +0530, Charles Haynes wrote: I rather read http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ too bad it's down again. You can still read it using Google's cached copies. No, the stuff they promised to post I can't. I wonder whether this is again a glitch,

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:34:29PM +0530, Charles Haynes wrote: I rather read http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ too bad it's down again. You can still read it using Google's cached copies. No, the stuff they promised to post I can't. I wonder whether this is again a glitch, or something more

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:08:35AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I am quite willing to believe that google handles customer data (on the average) with great care for privacy and security. The problem is the sheer volume of linked, mined data that it has at its disposal, thereby making even

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-18 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:58:59AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: security. The privacy community should really go after the bigger offenders of which there are many. Banks, accountants, governments... the privacy community does this, of course. but there are two reasons to spend more

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-18 Thread Badri Natarajan
2. google intentionally gathers more data cutting across more domains for more people across the world than perhaps any other single organisation, making it a uniquely concentrated potential point of failure for privacy, whether through security problems (or more to the point) government

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-18 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:24:15AM +0100, Badri Natarajan wrote: That is, Google doesn’t just have the most information, it also has it in the easiest, most accessible form. or at least, has a self-imposed mission to do so, thus the more successful google is at its self-imposed job, the more

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-18 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: [ on 04:03 PM 6/18/2007 ] That is, Google doesn't just have the most information, it also has it in the easiest, most accessible form. or at least, has a self-imposed mission to do so, thus the more successful google is at its self-imposed job, the more of a

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-17 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 6/12/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Written and spoken fluency in Mandarin, Cantonese or Japanese a plus.[1] #include not-speaking-for-my-employer.h #include not-speaking-for-my-past-employers.h I have been with organizations in the past that have handled far more

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-17 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote [at 09:58 AM 6/18/2007] : I have been with organizations in the past that have handled far more sensitive data with astronomically less regard for privacy and security. The privacy community should really go after the bigger offenders of which there are many. Banks,

Re: [silk] google looking for subpoena compliance legal assistant

2007-06-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [12/06/07 02:03 +0200]: ...Written and spoken fluency in Mandarin, Cantonese or Japanese a plus.[1] thanks to seth finkelstein for drawing my attention to this, in a comment [2] to danny sullivan's deconstruction [3] of privacy international's report [4] singling out google