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Don't You Want to be "Safe"?
Renegade:
More links in the Orwellian chain. >:(
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/09/1452243/google-patents-guilt-by-association
Google Patents Guilt-By-Association
""Guilt by association is defined as the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty. It's also at the heart of U.S. Patent No. 8,306,922, which was awarded to Google on Tuesday for Detecting Content on a Social Network Using Links, the invention of three Googlers. In its patent application, Google argues that if an individual posts content to social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. 'that is illegal (e.g., content violating copyright law, content violating penal statutes, etc.), inappropriate for minors (e.g., pornography, "R" or "NC-17" rated videos, adult content, etc.), in contravention of an end user licensing agreement (EULA), etc.', then their friends 'may be likely to post content to their profile pages related to similar topics.'"
-TaoPhoenix (November 09, 2012, 09:37 AM)
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:o
:o
:tellme:
:huh:
:'(
WTF!?!
Would you care to understate that just a bit more?
TaoPhoenix:
WTF!?!
Would you care to understate that just a bit more?
-Renegade (November 09, 2012, 09:54 AM)
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Okay, so if Apple spies on you with this technique, they have to pay Google licensing rights for it! But I'll bet the Govt gets a free license to use it, so they can Keep You Safe. Or something...
But yes, so if your friend uploads a song, *you* get put on a watch list!
tomos:
Maybe we could charge google for us being friends with people who do dodgy crap on the net ...
Seriously though, what does this mean (for us) ?
Avoid google+ ???
Tinman57:
More links in the Orwellian chain. >:(
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/09/1452243/google-patents-guilt-by-association
Google Patents Guilt-By-Association
""Guilt by association is defined as the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty. It's also at the heart of U.S. Patent No. 8,306,922, which was awarded to Google on Tuesday for Detecting Content on a Social Network Using Links, the invention of three Googlers. In its patent application, Google argues that if an individual posts content to social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. 'that is illegal (e.g., content violating copyright law, content violating penal statutes, etc.), inappropriate for minors (e.g., pornography, "R" or "NC-17" rated videos, adult content, etc.), in contravention of an end user licensing agreement (EULA), etc.', then their friends 'may be likely to post content to their profile pages related to similar topics.'"
-TaoPhoenix (November 09, 2012, 09:37 AM)
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In other words, they're doing the same thing that law enforcement has been doing for years....Guilt by association....
TaoPhoenix:
In other words, they're doing the same thing that law enforcement has been doing for years....Guilt by association....
-Tinman57 (November 09, 2012, 08:50 PM)
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Maybe, but it's all different now with a patent!
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