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Walled Garden and Privacy

If you protect the content of your "walled garden" partners, do you infringe on the privacy of your users?

AT&T may be heading down a path to determine exactly where protecting content ends and the boundary of privacy begins. Peter Burrows looks at how AT&T may start monitoring the content passed over its networks. This sounds a lot like the discussions taking place in regards to revisions to the FISA ACT.

In fact a common link between the two topics is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and their Net Neutrality efforts. The EFF is mentioned in both articles and I find myself strangely agreeing with them on this ( ... i know, i know... strange bedfellows... ).

To protect the "open-ness" of the garden (ie network, applications, etc), I am willing to place a "stop" on protecting the intellectual property of various content providers. However, I am not willing to eliminate the existence of this information should some controlling legal authority want to subpoena those records to make a pirating case.

Where is the line?

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  Posted by jmyers on November 12, 2007 8:00 AM |

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