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Comment on Outsourcing your personal information by Akshay Bhagwatwar

Akshay Bhagwatwar — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:17:39 +0000

Thanks for the comment Hong Wei.

Having a perfect outsourcing contract is surely the key. The interesting thing here is even though the practice of outsourcing is not really novel now, organizations haven’t yet perfected it. There are numerous cases where outsourcing contracts have been broken for some reason or the other. I think one of the reasons for this is the rapid advance in the computer and telecommunication technology. Outsourcing contracts often span multiple years sometimes even decade long. Now during these years, there is a lot of progress in the telecommunication and IT sector. So the privacy rules and regulations that were framed during the contract writing get outdated pretty soon. I think the way privacy audits are conducted and the carefulness with which amendments to the outsourcing contracts are made must be the key to the success of outsourcing arrangements.

Comment on User-centered Privacy Principles by HWei

HWei — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:16:50 +0000

I totally agree this opinion. Only when the privacy can meet user requirement, it means the privacy policy does work. Otherwise, there is always space to move ahead. No matter google or other IT companies, they provide service to their clients, client requests are the most important forever.

Comment on Outsourcing your personal information by HWei

HWei — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:07:17 +0000

As I know, when each outsourcing project kicks off, a contract about information privacy is required to be signed between the outsouceing company and the client. So this issue may be difficult to avoid. But it seems it could be avoided. Perfect contract is a good medicine to it. Right?

Comment on Term of Service? Or Abuse by Henry

Henry — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:13:02 +0000

No one can use the online service without agreeing with TOS. And we can see form TOS, a lot of companies just pretend to protect users’ right. I agree with what Joon said, TOS need to be improved. Although it’s hard and difficulty, like Claire said it’s better than do nothing.

Comment on The phenomena of Virtual Lawyers. by Henry

Henry — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:57:56 +0000

This is a really interesting and cool topic. With the advance of the internet and IT technology, I believe this would be a trend of the future world. But as Joe said, who’s going to mange and take care of the service? How to judge a person is innocent or not? These would be issues and have a lot of space to discuss.

Comment on Weak security leads essential software to hackers and malware distributors by Henry

Henry — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:40:07 +0000

I agree with both of Joe and KAtesci’s points of view. Indeed, a lot companies didn’t pay enough attention to IT security. But with more and more events of Hackers and Criminals, most companies care about this issue and put a lot of effort on it. However, like KAtesci said, there is 100% secure about IT security. So the more important thing is how to deal with these kinds of issues when facing them.

Comment on Piracy and Privacy by Henry

Henry — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:19:07 +0000

This article clearly distinguish the difference between “Privacy” from “Theft”
And it also gives users about the concept of privacy and defines the behavior of “Theft”. It’s really an interesting article. And in my opinion, I don’t think ISP should monitor what uses do all the time.

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Comment on Microsoft’s Bing: Reducing Storage of IP Addresses to Six Months by BKasturi

BKasturi — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:44:57 +0000

Well..I dont think it is in the interest of users. The reason search engines save IP addresses is for behavior profiling. They used to save IP adresses for 18 months initially and because of efficient alogorithms they could get the same information by saving only 6 months worth of behavior from each IP address. Search engines are still getting what they want, previously they needed 18 months now 6 months. If they care about user privacy, solution is not to store information at all..

Comment on Term of Service? Or Abuse by Joon Lee

Joon Lee — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:13:46 +0000

I agree with Henry and see the needs of improvement of TOS. The TOS should be easier to understand and read and fairer for the both parties of contract.
If there is a watchdog for the company’s TOS, would it be better for service users?