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<DIV><SPAN class=458002214-21072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Ginger, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=458002214-21072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>I
don't know any more but below is what I wrote to a different list where this is
being discussed and where the suggestion was made that Google might allow a 3rd
party intermediary to offer "ombusdman" services as a
recourse...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=046190614-21072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>At
some point quantity becomes quality. The fact that Google is dominant (almost a
monopoly) in certain crucial areas, that it is offering an increasingly seamless
integration of crucial services which is very much a monopoly (no one else can
offer that degree of transparent integration). These in itself, I think, put
Google in a very special position in the cybersphere. It also presents it with
very special responsibilities and I would argue (and I think many, including
legislators might, once confronted with a situation such as this one, agree)
with very significant social/public obligations.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=046190614-21072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Identity "theft" is of course a serious crime, but what about a
corporation "losing/destroying" what is in effect someone's identity -- by
accident, by incompetence, by individual or corporate malpractice, or even by
design but without recourse or appeal.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=046190614-21072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>This
case seems to be someone in the US which makes it rather less complicated than
if they were European for example, in which case it might be something that the
European Parliament or the Commission might be very interested in taking a look
at, with all the extra-territorial issues involved including differences in
philosophical and practicla approaches to data and identitymanagement, privacy
etc.etc.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=046190614-21072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>I
don't think that this is the kind of thing that in the medium or longer term
where Google will be able to "outsource" its responsibilty.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=046190614-21072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>M</FONT></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Ginger Paque
[mailto:gpaque@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:02
AM<BR><B>To:</B> governance@lists.cpsr.org; michael
gurstein<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [governance] Is This An Issue for Internet
Governance/Internet Human Rights?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>I would like to hear
more about this case, if someone can find specifics, or does any follow up on
it.<BR>Thanks, Michael, for the link.<BR><BR>Ginger<BR clear=all>Ginger
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On 21 July 2011 09:22, michael gurstein <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote><BR>I have no idea of the truth or falsity of what is
described in the below<BR>blogpost but whether or not the specific instance
is accurate/truthful the<BR>overall description which is, I would think,
potentially very real may raise<BR>some very serious issues including from a
global internet governance<BR>perspective.<BR><BR><A
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