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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Will AT&T be looking over your shoulder?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A plan by AT&T to develop technology that will let it monitor the actions of people who use its Internet pipeline has privacy advocates worried.
AT&T’s position is that it needs to watch for crooks dealing in pirated music and video. It says that most of its efforts will be to catch crooks located overseas. But it didn’t rule out checking on folks closer to home. Truth is there isn’t much detail about the proposal (and that’s all it is right now) so it’s really hard to know exactly what it plans.
You can read more about it here.
Privacy advocates worry that the technology used to detect crooks would also - by necessity - have to monitor ordinary users.
Like I said, it’s really hard to know since there is so little information. But - like most folks who have been around the Internet for a long time - I worry that even well-intentioned efforts can get out of control.
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