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DEL.ICIO.USWill 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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By C. Henry Adams & BIE
June 21, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this
Bill,
Yesterday (June 20th, 2007), I attempted to post a comment on your blog. But, rambling on about me being in the hospital the last two weeks, I got side track and erase the entire comment when I clicked a link to another page.
So, that being said… I believe the new “at&t” is basically discussing an operation they would probably have already implemented.
Its a possibility that in their beta research…they have gathered some good leads or results.
However, we should closely watch how counter intuit whatever adversary finds a way to maneuver around this so call new technology to steal songs & movies electronically.