QUOTE (5by5 @ Jul 5 2008, 12:40 PM) 
Do you even understand the concept of a network? Encryption? How about IP routing? Splitters? Data mining and analytics? The semantic web? Link analysis, rule-based content analysis and suspicion indexing?
Please go educate yourself on this topic before contributing. You're way out of your depth. I'd suggest going back and looking at some of the previous threads on the matter, as well as visiting www.eff.org for more information.
Please go educate yourself on this topic before contributing. You're way out of your depth. I'd suggest going back and looking at some of the previous threads on the matter, as well as visiting www.eff.org for more information.
I have to wonder if you even read the article in the OP, which is what this thread is all about. Here's a quote:
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Officials were keen to stress the contract covered only information that could be found by anyone with a computer and Internet connection.
"This is a research tool gathering information that is already in the public domain."
(emphases added)"This is a research tool gathering information that is already in the public domain."
If they will be violating your privacy by doing these things, then every person who has ever used the internet to look at web pages, no matter what their motive, is a civil rights violator.
What lunacy!