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Well, while Google is described as having "entrenched hostility to privacy", LJ is "generally privacy aware", the second best category. No sites at all were described as "privacy-friendly and privacy enhancing", which was the best, so not a bad result, all told.

From A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies

Date: June 11th, 2007 12:03 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] daintress.livejournal.com
The great thing about LJ is you get to choose how private you'd like it to be. I haven't posted an unlocked entry for the better part of a year. It's nice. :)

Date: June 11th, 2007 10:02 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] diffrentcolours
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Private from whom, though? There's information that I might trust to a random stranger but not to a large corporation or government.

Date: June 11th, 2007 01:27 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] lady-angelina.livejournal.com
Yay, LJ! :D

Yahoo! and AOL scored as "Substantial Threats," and Microsoft scored as "Serious Lapses." Why does that not surprise me? XD

But I was surprised by MySpace's score, "Notable Lapses." I thought it'd be down further than that. =P

Date: June 11th, 2007 02:59 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] applez.livejournal.com
Forgive my Soviet-informed experiences and prejudices ... but can anyone seriously expect privacy in this information technology world? I mean really, we are voluntarily spreading more information about ourselves, actions and motives, than Big Brother ever dreamed of gleaning in the Bad Old Days.

What's more, the ubiquitious spread and access of IT is such that even if we voluntarily switch off and choose to drop off the Net, we are still traced.

Date: June 12th, 2007 02:38 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] twic.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)
Moreover, does anyone actually want privacy? If all sites had lots of privacy we wouldn't have anything to read.

-- tom

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