{"id":199498,"date":"2007-07-23T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/23\/does-privacy-sell\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T10:16:00","slug":"does-privacy-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/23\/does-privacy-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Privacy Sell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this story about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.regdeveloper.co.uk\/2007\/07\/20\/ask_unveils_askeraser\/\">Ask.com devising an aggressive privacy policy<\/a>.  It was couched as a way to compete with Google.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also heard about Microsoft doing the same (in the case of the Borg, however, I won&#8217;t trust them to follow through).<\/p>\n<p>This is not an outbreak of corporate ethics, but rather an attempt to capitalize on a perceived weakness of Google, the Elephant in the room, regarding privacy.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this will not make a big difference, and we&#8217;ll see relaxation of the new policies over the next 18-24 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this story aboutAsk.com devising an aggressive privacy policy. It was couched as a way to compete with Google. I&#8217;ve also heard about Microsoft doing the same (in the case of the Borg, however, I won&#8217;t trust them to follow through). This is not an outbreak of corporate ethics, but rather an attempt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,997,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}