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Data privacy

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Quotes from What to Do When Uncle Sam Wants Your Data. Nice story about what is being done with the Patriot Act.

In addition to the usual beach bums, water bugs and vacationers renting equipment and booking trips, there were FBI agents demanding the names and addresses of everyone the shops had taught to dive since 1999.
They wouldn’t say why.

PADI’s vice president of industry and government relations. In order to spare the dive shops further harassment on their first busy day of the year, Nadler made a critical decision: PADI would give the FBI a copy of its own database.

But this eagerness to comply is a recipe for litigation, since volunteering data is quite different from being ordered to divulge information by a court

The cost of not complying is even higher; the government fined Western Union $8 million in December when it failed to spot multiple transfers made by the same people.

[thanks Fizzz]

Thought of the day

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So on this beautiful sunny warm lazy Thursday afternoon before the Easter holidays, the not-very-keen-on-working me has been staring out the window and cruising from office to office since lunch.

I feel like sharing a thought with the rest of you who read this thing: Does everyone agree that corruption is a necessary step for a developing country? I think so (sadly). I don’t know how to make this politically correct, but it does seem to be this way. Somehow, things that wouldn’t be possible otherwise, get accomplised when corruption exists.

I am not saying that corruption should exist at all time, but from the look of it, it isn’t all bad. It seems to have its use. The problem is that it is not very easy to decide who and how to control the extend of it.

That’s it…