Comments on: Forget the EU: How to really empower users on privacy

By: bruce wayne

bruce wayne — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:49:33 +0000

Great Article !!!!!
Thanks for bringing out some key ideas concerning the issues of privacy from the end users perspective.
I think that many still see ways to solve the privacy issue from inside the box of traditional business models. I think we need to turn the entire process on its head and this more than likely will need to start with changing notions of what constitues a “Corporation” as well as with a reconsideration of the “Value” “Chain”
We are developing http://www.kleemi.com to push the edges and bring about some of new possibilities concerning “Community Empowerment”

By: Lucian Armasu

Lucian Armasu — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:15:24 +0000

Are you actually suggesting the Government should run Google to *increase* privacy protection?

Google doesn’t want to put you in jail for 5 years for streaming a copyrighted video – the Government does.

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:23:18 +0000

I hadn’t thought about a nationalized web platform, but if you have a socialist slant and consider web services to be integral to competition, it’s not *entirely* inconceivable. Of course, the government having our data opens up a whole other can of worms …

By: solublefish

solublefish — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:22:12 +0000

Simple solution: nationalize Google. No more need for advertisers, and now the platform is under the sovereign control of the people. It might appear to be costly, since now taxpayers must foot the bill for all of Google’s services and hardware, etc. But in fact, it would actually cost very little, if anything: consumers are ultimately already supporting Google, but doing so indirectly through the ads bought by companies who sell their products to consumers.