John Navas wrote:
> <http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/08/aclu_sfnetwork/>
>
> The American Civil Liberties Union became the latest group to
> criticize a city-wide network San Francisco has proposed building
> with EarthLink and Google, arguing that the deal would compromise
> user privacy.
Not exactly new.
"On October 19, 2005, the ACLU of Northern California, Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC) submitted comments to TechConnect concerning the privacy
implications of municipal broadband access. In that letter, the groups
raised a series of privacy issues that sought to focus attention on
whether uses of the municipal broadband network will have secure and
private access to the Internet"
http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/sfan4306.html
>
> In a letter sent to members of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors,
> an official with the Northern California chapter of the ACLU said the
> group is "very concerned that the final municipal wireless contract
> with Google and EarthLink does not include adequate safeguards for
> privacy and free speech." Topping their concerns, were plans by
> Google and EarthLink to gather information about users in order to
> recoup costs of the service, some of which will be delivered for
> free.
>
> "The business model of a municipal wireless system should not include
> tracking and profiling user activities in order to sell or trade data
> or develop targeted advertising based on user information and online
> activities," an attachment to the letter argued. "Such a business
> model creates an incentive to collect as much data about an
> individual and maintain it for as long as possible in order to create
> profiles about users."
>
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