10 worst privacy debacles
If you want to know what the top 10 privacy debacles of the last century are, check out the story I wrote for Wired about all the ways your personal data has been left unprotected by industry, and riffled through illegally by the government. Everything’s included, from ChoicePoint’s dumbassitude to COINTELPRO’s scaryfreakitude.
You may be surprised by which debacle comes in first!
September 3rd, 2006 at 5:21 pm
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September 8th, 2006 at 5:43 am
ER I Think HP have just Gone to number one – with a bullet for the CEO
September 14th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Sorry, but I don’t think HP can even make it on the list. They have to compete with companies and organizations who spied on thousands of people — or who released the private data of millions. The only reason why anyone is paying attention to the HP scandal at all is because rich, powerful board members were the victims of spying. I doubt the incident would have raised any eyebrows at all if the company had been spying on the phone records of its employees.