February 25, 2005

Adware and Privacy together at last. An attorney and former Claria executive (you remeber Gator right?) is now on an executive pannel on privacy for the White House.

via Fark of all places.

posted by Uncle 19 years ago
  • I'm beginning to think that my government is trying "rule by irony" as an across-the-board administrative strategy. Up next, Matt Drudge will be invited to chair a discussion on journalistic ethics in the Mural Room.
  • This just makes me laugh and laugh and laugh, and then go stock up on ammunition.
  • Why, of course. Who better than spam and spyware peddlers to advice the guvmint as to what *not* to do? Of late, I check twice if I mistakenly accesed "TheOnion" instead of CNN or BBC News. Wow.
  • I think I'm well over my RDA for irony today.
  • You have GOT to be kidding me. I second the ammo gathering. I keep thinking things can't get any weird and they always do.
  • It's not April 1st already??
  • Hmmm...with oil companies in charge of energy policy, big lumber and industrialists in charge of environmental policy, and polluters in charge of emissions standards, why not have advertisers in charge of our privacy?
  • In an e-mail message to CNET News.com, Kelly defended the inclusion of a Claria representative on the committee. "I am proud of, supportive of and grateful for those individuals in the public and private sector who are willing to take on the hard tasks, fight the good fight, and who surprise us with creative, fresh and unconventional thinking, and who make change where change is needed through their hard work and personal dedication," Kelly said. This mealymouthed patriotism is brought to you by DHS Chief Privacy Officer Nuala O'Connor Kelly, former executive for DoubleClick.
  • Is this a joke? Just when you think things can't get any wierder..though considering that the US has annexed all Canadian airspace I guess anything is possible.
  • I mean c'mon everyone knows that DOubleClick was known for it's upstanding ethics and staunch commitment to Privacy. /end sarcasm I have some experience in this field, having worked for a doubleclick compeitor for many years now and they are some evil people.
  • I'm not sure how to reconcile how I feel about this. There is an obvious mismatch of interests going on here, and on such a wide spectrum of issues at that, for all these national interests for our current administration. Eye rolling and groaning widespread, but what of the tacit acceptance that this entails? For all the Stop Bush rhetoric, how much has he actually been 'stopped' ? Barring the questionable results of the elections, the "voting population" of the US approves of these actions. *rant* ~sigh~
  • Where have you all been? This is merely another implementation of the well-established fox-in-the-henhouse policy. Get used to it; we've got another four years of it coming.