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If you want more privacy, stay off the Internet and off the phone.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Corporations repeatedly invade customers' privacy for profit -- and perhaps sometimes out of a feeling of patriotism, as well -- and the government invades privacy in the face of a population that does not stand up resolutely and united enough against such invasions.  How often and resolutely do communications companies stand up to government subpoenas for information about their customers? How often do such companies instead look at the money they can charge to satisfy a subpoena or government information request?  A December 1, 2009, Wired online article suggests that such communications companies as Cox, Yahoo, Verizon and Comcast are more happy to satisfy government information requests on their customers than to protect their customers' privacy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).