Who Wants High Speed Fiber Connections in PHX?

Frank francis.earl at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 01:41:45 MST 2010


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm, original post and 10 replies.  And the only message on topic is the
> original question to which no one gave a response.  Very sad!!!
>

I think this is all on topic: having Google as an ISP in the Valley would
give them the same access to our data as Cox currently has (in my case.)


> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Frank <francis.earl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Frank <francis.earl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > It really isn't any different to ISP's knowledge of our online
>>> activities
>>> > now... I think its actually better since Google is fully upfront about
>>> their
>>> > access to our online activities!
>>> > Privacy is important, but on the internet, we've never had it... I
>>> don't
>>> > really understand the uproar directed at Google, if anything, its
>>> better
>>> > that so much is stored in one place... the more there is, the harder it
>>> is
>>> > to track unless they have good reason. If you're doing nothing illegal
>>> on
>>> > the internet, I don't see why people worry?
>>>
>>> If it were financially feasible to do so, it sounds like you would
>>> have no problem with a having a police officer follow you and watch
>>> you 24/7.  After all, you would not do anything illegal, right?
>>>
>>
>> We already have cameras on us almost anywhere we go, FBI also can tap your
>> phone for a wide variety of reasons. Your television habits are tracked too,
>> else how do they get ratings? I don't see people stopping their use of
>> phones and TV, or not going on freeways or to public places due to privacy?
>> Internet privacy is very similar in many ways to both of these, unless we're
>> doing something wrong, we know they're not singling us out.
>>
>> Your statement even points this out, it simply isn't feasible to track and
>> monitor everything each person does online, there is simply too much data!
>> With it all going to one source, it makes this even less feasible. AdSense
>> and friends use your data in certain algorithms, but there isn't an actual
>> person taking time out of their day to see what news articles you read today
>> or what you downloaded yesterday.
>>
>> I understand most people are much more private than me, but I personally
>> worry more about things like censorship compared to privacy... I simply
>> don't have much to hide.
>>
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