OK, Apple and Google (smartphone OS makers) hauled in front of the US Senate this week to ‘splain their collecting user data (BAD!), and then there’s a Justice Department official arguing that mobile phone operators should store more data (to make it easier for law enforcement to use data to catch bad guys).
Huh! Bad you collected this data, but, by the way…collect/retain more…
TechDirt has a good (short) shot at this dichotomy, but, basically, this is something we are going to be dealing with for a long time – the battle of open vs. closed; access vs. not; privacy vs. not-so-much.
It’s been an ongoing battle; this latest kerfuffle was just a exclamation point on the matter.
And why is the Senate concerned with this? It reminds me of when the Senate did all those hearings on steroids in professional baseball.
Huh? (both cases)
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