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Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Posted Jun 8, 2012 10:26 UTC (Fri) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723)
In reply to: Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review) by bjartur
Parent article: Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Finally your sex life is not so interesting.

But since you are in such a liberal vain with private life, could you please disclose all your bank account coordinates, passwords etc. so that everybody on this list can have a look at transactions ?

Concerning your vacation time, I know some people (burglars) are interested.
For example these fine guys watches funeral announcements and arrange their visit when people attend funerals.

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Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Posted Jun 8, 2012 14:25 UTC (Fri) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

>>realize that many people like keeping secrets, and I will not force my, evidently debatable, ideology upon them.

>could you please disclose all your bank account coordinates, passwords etc. so that everybody on this list can have a look at transactions ?

If any of those transactions involve natural persons, then allowing third parties to peruse the account history would be a violation of those natural persons' privacy.

Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Posted Jun 8, 2012 15:37 UTC (Fri) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]

Actually I know a person who had for about one year posted his bank statements online. You could donate money to him, and it would show up on the public statement next months. Was his way to incentivize people to donate money to his project. Cool, but very weird and intrusive.

Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Posted Jun 8, 2012 14:36 UTC (Fri) by bjartur (guest, #67801) [Link]

Finally your sex life is not so interesting.

But since you are in such a liberal vain with private life [..]

Haha.

[..] could you please disclose all your bank account coordinates, passwords etc. so that everybody on this list can have a look at transactions ?

I don't use password-authentication for banking, and I have not made my account accessible over residential IP-networks. I flat out can't be bothered to fetch said list from the nearest bank.

I can assure they're even less interesting than my sex life, however. There are a few illegal purchases of alcoholic bevereges in there, but otherwise it's more or less for food.

Bank account coordinates doesn't seem like an English term. Italian, perhaps?

Concerning your vacation time, I know some people (burglars) are interested. For example these fine guys watches funeral announcements and arrange their visit when people attend funerals.

They could just as well rob my house during work hours.