Comments on: Symmetrical Privacy and Musings on Site Meter http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/symmetrical_pri_1.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:47:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Eric Goldman http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/symmetrical_pri_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-62976 Eric Goldman Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:00:50 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2005/10/symmetrical-privacy-and-musings-on-site-meter.html#comment-62976 FWIW, at Epinions, we banned users from posting SiteMeter (and other similar tools to learn visitor IP addresses) to their profile pages for this very reason. Eric. FWIW, at Epinions, we banned users from posting SiteMeter (and other similar tools to learn visitor IP addresses) to their profile pages for this very reason. Eric.

]]> By: Paul Gowder http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/symmetrical_pri_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-62975 Paul Gowder Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:31:13 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2005/10/symmetrical-privacy-and-musings-on-site-meter.html#comment-62975 John: Why, oh why, oh why isn't Foucault's work being scrolled across Times Square by now? This is all so panoptic! John: Why, oh why, oh why isn’t Foucault’s work being scrolled across Times Square by now? This is all so panoptic!

]]> By: John Armstrong http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/symmetrical_pri_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-62974 John Armstrong Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:12:06 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2005/10/symmetrical-privacy-and-musings-on-site-meter.html#comment-62974 Not to sound like a knee-jerk liberal, but isn't the lack of symmetrical privacy a large part of the PATRIOT act complaints? In particular, it's assymetrically private for the government to ask, say, a library for my information and not allow me to know they're asking. To disclaim: I'm not making a statement one way or the other on the merits of those arguments, just drawing an analogy. Not to sound like a knee-jerk liberal, but isn’t the lack of symmetrical privacy a large part of the PATRIOT act complaints? In particular, it’s assymetrically private for the government to ask, say, a library for my information and not allow me to know they’re asking.

To disclaim: I’m not making a statement one way or the other on the merits of those arguments, just drawing an analogy.

]]>