Think twice before giving your personal data to either Yahoo or MSN

by Miha Markič 25. August 2007 16:05

According to today news MSN and Yahoo agreed to help Chinese government in censorship and fight versus "politically sensitive" bloggers. The help consists in giving all of blogger's private data to the government on its request. Just like that. Now, if those big companies are so willing to give data away to Chinese government, do you think that they have a problem giving same kind of data to any "democratic" government - even more so, if somebody mentions terrorism threat. Not to mention that MSN and Yahoo are huge companies. Smaller companies are probably even worse in this regard. Heck, even European Union is sending a lot of private data to US when an European citizen flies over there. Privacy? What' that? We should sacrify all of our privacy for bigger goals, right? NO! Perhaps John Connor was right in the Terminator 3 movie - he lived practically outside the system.

So, think twice and one more time before you give any personal data to any company.

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Miha Markic

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Miha currently works as a free lance consultant and software developer specialized in .net area.
He graduated in Computer and information science at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has accumulated experience in various programming languages such as Java, Visual Basic 3-6 (MCP), Visual C++, Delphi, C# and VB.Net through years.
He has experience in practically all (technical) stages of project development, including planning, framework development, user interface, business processes, as well as testing and documenting. He has worked on big and small projects in Slovenia and abroad (e.g. participated in completing level 3 IS for the Nucor steel plant, Hertford, USA).
Currently he enjoys programming in .net environment using C#. Since 2000 he has been active in Developer Express' DX Squad and has been ECDL trainer and tester. He also gives lectures on conferences and other events in Slovenia.

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