[governance] Google Caught Tracking Safari Users: What You Need to Know

[Marie GEORGES]

I perfectly agree with you Louis.... if the fine was imposed quickly...not in 2 years...and in between new violation. 

The basic problem is that with Google, Facebook and others we relay on an economic model which is based on making money with "assets "made of personal data
Marie.
Le 20 févr. 2012 à 14:07, Louis Pouzin (well) a écrit :

> Using information collected illegally doesn't make its use legal. It doesn't matter whether or not a fly by night company was used as a stooge. Google knew very well they were violating privacy laws. Since the only thing they care of is money, the appropriate reaction should be a fine, in the range of one month revenue.
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> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:58, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:
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> On 20.02.12 11:06, Marie GEORGES wrote:
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> Do we have to loose our time to complain every 6 months  on new IT/criminal practices from  dominant IT companies ! !
> 
> The problem is, that most infringements are in fact done by small companies. As is the case with Apple's platform -- Apple by default has access to your address book -- in general, if you don't like that you don't buy their devices. The only "safe" way is if you build your own devices, but this is beyond the capabilities of most of the population so they settle for some level of trust -- to their mobile device vendor, to their communications company and for their software services.
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> But, it is entirely possible and perhaps the way those companies conduct their business to use a "fuse" company, who will publish the rogue application -- so that it can steal your data and give it in hands of someone else, be it Google, BBC, Procter & Gamble (to name just few), or perhaps in the hands of those non-existent US and elsewhere "secret service" para-governmental structures. In the not so politicaly correct speech, we call all those collectively "The Mafia".
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> Trouble is, that one trades their privacy in exchange for the convenience of communication. This has been so always in human society, not something recent with computers, mobile devices and the Internet.
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> Daniel
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