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Privacy: does it actually exist?

April 16, 2010

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

The main question is if privacy is possible at a time where terrorism and cybercrime in general are flourishing and are becoming alternatives for established groups and individuals. Law enforcement, intelligence and DOD agencies need to have ways to intercept communications on all levels of technologies that support data and voice/video communications to prevent possible attacks and crimes taking place. The question remains in how far they should be allowed to tap any type of communications and how much proof they need to get to get a go ahead from higher levels in the hierarchy. Government snooping on citizens is one thing but when it also is starting to get used by corporations and other organizations it will certainly get out of hand. Guarding productivity is one thing, but monitoring employees or citizens for that on a 24 x 7 level raises questions about our whole society.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Yes Google will become Big Brother, because users don't care

June 4, 2009

In order to be competitive Google needs to collect personal information about its users so they can better target their ads. Without proper targeting, the ads will become annoying to the user and a waste of money to the advertiser. So the race is on to collect as much information as legally allowed.

Privacy: does it actually exist?

June 4, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

The main question is if privacy is possible at a time where terrorism and cybercrime in general are flurishing and are becoming alternatives for established groups and individuals. Law enforcement, intelligence and DOD agencies need to have ways to intercept communications on all levels of technologies that support data and voice/video communications to prevent possible attacks and crimes taking place. The question remains in how far they should be allowed to tap any type of communications and how much proof they need to get to get a go ahead from higher levels in the hierarchy. Government snooping on citizens is one thing but when it also is starting to get used by corporations and other organizations it will certainly get out of hand. Guarding productivity is one thing, but monitoring employees or citizens for that on a 24 x 7 level raises questions about our whole society.

Predicting the future

June 2, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Years ago we watched technology leap into Europe. Eastern Europe acquired support to build a modern technology highway and out ran West Germany. Around 1999 we predicted that laptops would become what we called (Netcard PCs). Reality is here. The netbook products are moving in that direction. We always worried about who would control the networks and the speed on the networks. I believe that Netbooks are the beginning of a new tool to promote using online software and storage to eventually move away from local storage and software. During this process you will see the cost of using the airways increase up to $60.00 a month for high rate speed and space. This could cost up to $1500.00 a year to do the same thing we are doing locally with about $600.00 of cost to access the internet with high speed . Through this transition we can expect the control of data and privacy to increase. The corporate industry is paying up to $100K to monitor employees on social networks even today.