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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 21 November 2013 02:55 AM,
Ian Peter wrote:<br>
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face="Times New Roman" size="4">I think corporate and
governmental surveillance and unregulated use of our
personal data is a huge issue. This article from Bruce
Schneier gives a lot of good background on how bad
things are - in an earlier essay he likened the problem
to the pollution of the early industrial era which went
unregulated until it became a massive uncontrollable
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face="Times New Roman" size="4">We really do have to get
on top of this one - and unfortunately large internet
corporations whose profit is dependent on using our
personal data and governments of differing political
persuasions who are part of alliances that give
unregulated permission to do anything to their
surveillance communities are not going to help. Big
problem...</font></span></div>
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</big><font face="Times New Roman"><big>Shows how meaningless the
term 'self regulation' is, which was bandied around for so long,
and many still do...<br>
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Also shows why big business so desperately wants a seat at the
decision making table of Internet related policies, lest someone
tries to spoil its party.<br>
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Civil society must seriously consider what they </big></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><big>are </big></font><font face="Times
New Roman"><big>contributing to in asking for business to be given
a seat at the table for deciding Internet related policies....
And not push away such debates simply as seeking
multi-lateralism. We must amend the terms of the debate and set
up progressive and democratic frameworks to discuss IG. <br>
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parminder <br>
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