Google-chaired think tank says Google's No.1 for digital rights Just fancy that! A Washington think tank chaired by Eric Schmidt, Alphabet Inc’s executive chairman, has given Alphabet Inc. an award for "protecting your digital rights”. Schmidt became executive chairman of the New America Foundation, which had built a strong reputation as a non-partisan and imaginative policy think tank, in …
...........your minders may ensure that I get modded for expressing myself in this way. However, never mind. Here you are at last tackling this very important issue (and no, I am not being sarcastic) in a way that does not encourage the "tribalists" amongst us to howl their usual song. It is of crucial importance that we tackle "BigCorp" (regardless of which company it might be) over their lackadaisical attitude to privacy. It is highly ironic that a number of those companies who are absolutely determined to own their customers collective arses are (MS being an example amongst others) protesting against the involvement of the "State". I am very pleased to see that you are now looking beyond just MS and Win 10 (although we must of course continue to watch the buggers closely) - they are only one part of the problem.
I've been writing about privacy since CCTV came into the UK 21 years ago. But thanks :-)
You won't get privacy unless you can assert ownership rights. There won't be a functioning "digital economy" without ownership. And Silicon Valley doesn't want anyone but itself to assert ownership. So the greatest con trick ever pulled is persuading people to give up their rights voluntarily.
Most people get this, but on tech forums (I already see a reference to the RIAA/MPAA) the propaganda is still effective.
So basically, this whole "organization" and it's rankings are BS and pointless. I'm sure they'll get some mainstream media time with said media fawning all over them for being "upfront".
Is it beer o'clock yet? Stuff like this and the security theater going on, make wonder why I don't drink more.
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