Isn’t it ironic

They all have the data, they all know for a long time whats going wrong. Its not the first time, its not the second, and all of it has happened before. They are young, and angry, and for many a good reason. By now even the weirdest insults become to be found to be true.

But it still seems the role of old farts like me to remember (and go unheeded) that all these troubles have been here before, and have been analyzed and studied in detail, and have found resolution, and lament all those experiences that were forgotten, and have to be learned anew.

But this is not another round of the 18. Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, this is more of a hamster wheel of generations we’re in. And sad as it sounds, forgetting past failures and achievements is probably the best way to come round and get out on the streets. Which is where we we should be right now.

 

 

Terms and Conditions

So… Imagine someone is trying to make a business model from invading others peoiples privacy. Lets say they sell access to some of the gaziollion CCTV cameras ditributed all over Britain threse days, cause you know, if you have nothing to hide… And obviously people are interested in watching their neigbours and catch them while… well, whatever people do that might be worth catching them at.  And lets even go further and suggest that that might be a viable business model, charging people for watching surveillance cams in the hope of winning a jackpot of a whopping 1.000 Pounds.

Then, of course, you would want to protect at least the companys privacy – or that of its stakeholders, from all this Stasi mob you’ve just unleashed on your fellow countrymen, right? So you’d probably add somephrase like the following to your website:

You must not print, save, copy, modify, transmit or otherwise disclose or share any image or other information you view on our website with any other person, including a family member. In the unlikely event that you recognise a business customer of ours, or a person you know on camera, you agree not to communicate with that person or any other person at those premises.

Now that should make sure the company gets to decide which crimes actually end up at the police, right?

And of course, since we are already facilitating general nosiness around neigbours and public spaces, we can also abandon users privacy on the website, as well, right?

6. The personal information we disclose may include your Viewer ID and Viewer ID history, name, address, telephone number, alerts or anything else that we in our sole discretion deem relevant.

But of course that snippet we better put in some “Privacy Policy” Statement, thats even more difficult to find.

Of couse, all this has nothing to do with http://interneteyes.co.uk/terms-conditions.html

Oups, I forgot:

You may not link any other site to our website.