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Re: Last Call: <draft-farrell-perpass-attack-02.txt> (Pervasive Monitoring is an Attack) to Best Current Practice

2014-01-02 09:56:04
On Jan 2, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net> 
wrote:
The draft specifically calls out "legal but privacy-unfriendly purposes
by commercial enterprises" "no matter how benevolent some might consider
them to be" causing "through correlation with other communication
events, [revelation of] information the communicator did not intend to
be revealed"; that is a description of "behavioral advertising".

It might be helpful to quote the text without strategic elisions!   It's true 
that something like the G+1 button can be used for pervasive monitoring, but 
that's a bit different than saying that this document is specifically targeting 
Google and Google's general business model.   The point is that if by 
happenstance certain applications like the G+1 or FB Like button become less 
valuable as a result of IETF being more proactive in preventing pervasive 
monitoring, that would be an acceptable outcome.

Do you disagree with that?


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