Missing the point: it's about privacy
Missing the point: it's about privacy
Posted Aug 10, 2009 19:26 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Missing the point: it's about privacy by jspaleta
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
Canonical selling user data as a revenue stream is unlikely to happen. UK
data protection laws are pretty strict and as of next April the
Information Commissioner will have power to levy quite substantial fines
for violation of that law. The UK *had* its privacy Chernobyl, and it
wasn't Canonical who triggered it, it was contractors working for the
taxman.
data protection laws are pretty strict and as of next April the
Information Commissioner will have power to levy quite substantial fines
for violation of that law. The UK *had* its privacy Chernobyl, and it
wasn't Canonical who triggered it, it was contractors working for the
taxman.
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