--- Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/11/07, jf_wikipedia jf_wikipedia@mac.com wrote:
Wikipedia, together with BBC.com, ebay, Last.fm and
LiveJournal.com
was rated as "generally privacy aware" by Privacy
International, the
...
Goggle was at the bottom, with a rating of
"comprehensive consumer
surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy"
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/internet/interimrankings.pdf
I asked them for further information. So far, I am unconvinced about their methodology.
And you deserve a true Wikipedian stamp for asking, even if you work for Google, own stock in Google, or work for an organization that is paid by Google, in which case you really should mention that now and hand off your data collection efforts to someone that's not a shill. Ideally, someone that's not hostile to Google either.
SourceWatch: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Privacy_International
Wikipedia's article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_International
ACLU's description (listed along with EFF as a privacy site): http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/15680res20010823.html
EFF lists PI as another resource in it's Privacy Top 12 (it also includes a Google search link, but no link to Wikipedia): http://www.eff.org/Privacy/eff_privacy_top_12.php
Google's own ACLU site only results for PI: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&hl=en&num=10&btnG=Google+Sear...
Google's own EFF site only results for PI: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&hl=en&num=10&btnG=Google+Sear...
~~Pro-Lick http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Halliburton_Shill http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pro-Lick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pro-Lick http://www.wikiality.com/User:Pro-Lick (Wikia supported site since 2006)
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