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Privacy Rant

Here's a delicious rant from last week's SF Gate [via IP] that shines a light into the dark corner where Comcast's 'privacy notice' lives, hissing and spitting. (Comcast is a huge cable TV & cable internet provider in the US). Note in particular:

Furthermore, Comcast "may combine personally identifiable information [read: private data that's none of their damn business] with personally identifiable information from third parties for the purpose of creating an enhanced database to use in marketing and other activities." Gosh you sweet Comcast lizard execs, I bet if you tried really hard, you could sound slightly more draconian and malicious. Oh, do try.

As I mentioned earlier in the week, this is called 'triangulation' and it's the big problem facing us in the future when it comes to privacy and fraud.

posted at 3:36 PM (UK) | |