Effective asap after the weekend (the weekend starts early in New York in the summertime—I’m outta here tomorrow), Hepzeeba’s household will sever its relationship with AT&T.
I am sick and outraged as I note (via the San Franciso Chronicle) that the company will have a new policy effective Friday:
The new policy says that AT&T — not customers — owns customers’ confidential info and can use it “to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.”
The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service — something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.
Moreover, AT&T (formerly known as SBC) is requiring customers to agree to its updated privacy policy as a condition for service — a new move that legal experts say will reduce customers’ recourse for any future data sharing with government authorities or others. [emphasis added]
I’m a privacy nut. I don’t have anything to hide. I just like my privacy. And I especially like being the one to make the decision about what I disclose, when, to whom, and under which circumstances.
That is my right as an American citizen. But not according to AT&T.
This is grim news for those who love liberty. Major corporations are bending to the will of the government without even blinking.
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Right as an American citizen? You have to rememeber that the U.S. and EU Constitutions allow for absolute power through these Terrorism bills. All in the name of protecting our freedoms the President gets full power. Rememember WW2 and wiretapping there etc.
Now we have this out of control Terrorism that will never end.
We have to either rewrite some of the Constitution or force the government to dole out responsability to non-profits like Linux, that care.
The only people that are protecting our freedoms are The Open Source Initiative and the GNU!
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