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    • Councilman wants his e-mail to be open book

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      That's why Renton City Councilman Randy Corman has asked that his e-mail go into a file that anyone can rifle through and read, right there at City Hall. "I want it to all be as public as possible," said Corman, who has his own personal Web site, where he explains his votes on certain issues. "We're going to look like a more open [city]

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      Is Google Evil?

      Posted by Billbar from Motherjones

      So the question is not whether Google will always do the right thing—it hasn’t, and it won’t. It’s whether Google, with its insatiable thirst for your personal data, has become the greatest threat to privacy ever known, a vast informational honey pot that attracts hackers, crackers, online thieves, and—perhaps most worrisome of all—a government intent on finding convenient ways to spy on its own citizenry.

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    Jeff comments on:

    Feds catch radioactive cat on Interstate 5

    Personally, I’m glad to hear the U.S. is deploying (and has the capability) these devices. I’m skeptical of the casual anecdote that this agent shared at a community meeting.

    I would like the government to be more forthcoming about their domestic spying – at the very least with Congress – so we can have the appropriate Constitutional checks and balances.

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    2:19 pm 3/24/08
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    Politics | FBI aims to amass huge database of people\\\\\\\'s physical characteristics | Seattle Tim

    I hope you are joking.

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    4:15 pm 12/25/07
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    rwtaylor comments on:

    Politics | FBI aims to amass huge database of people\\\\\\\'s physical characteristics | Seattle Tim

    great !!!

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    2:29 pm 12/24/07
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    Jon comments on:

    Amazon database would put shoppers' intimate details on the line

    This kind of intrusive corporate snooping is above and beyond the pale. I really wish we had a law that would allow me to get companies to *remove* data about me from their files.

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    10:00 am 8/12/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    OS X 10.4.7 Phones Home To Cupertino

    Seems innocuous like what iTunes did, but does feel Microsoftian. Probably can be circumvented easily, like in iTunes. But Apple is a large multinational corporation and thus is evil by definition, so a little paranoia is healthy.

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    5:37 am 7/06/06
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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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    a geek, a crazy cyclist, and somebody who just wants to see the world become a happier place.

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    former US Marine, retired police. . .nothing of interest. . .

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