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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 21 2013 @ 11:23 AM EDT |
> "They're putting this under the cloak of privacy, but it's disrupting
a business model," Mastria said.
Hey Mr. Mastria, business models get disrupted all the time. They're not a
God-given right.
Any time some business flunky makes a statement like that, we need to quote some
Heinlein back at them:
There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that
just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a
number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing
such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and
contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither
statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to
come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-Line" (1939)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 21 2013 @ 03:51 PM EDT |
Of course this is just "privacy theater" if the browser fingerprints
(reporting of fonts, screen resolution, OS version, etc.) that enable tracking
without cookies are still allowed, not to mention the third-party toolbars that
get installed with every so-called-free program.
And even if you avoid fingerprinting, as soon as you sign in to any site with
google-analytics (which includes Firefox support) you're identified and tracked.
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