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Glenn Beck - Warning about the Feds & Your 'Puter
Aug 12th, 2009 at 4:12pm
 
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Re: Glenn Beck - Warning about the Feds & Your 'Puter
Reply #1 - Aug 12th, 2009 at 4:24pm
 
It will take snopes a few days to cover the distortions in that one.  EFF has dealt with it:

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Unfortunately, the commentary of Fox anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle was also wrong about the scope of the privacy issues:

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   They are jumping right inside you, seizing all of your personal and private information, and absolutely legal, Glenn, they can do it... They can continue to track you, basically forever, once they've tapped into your system, the government of course has, like, malware systems, and tracking cookies, and they can tap in any time they want.


Clicking "continue" on a poorly worded Terms of Service on a government site will not give the government the ability to "tap into your system... any time they want." The seizure of the personal and private information stored on your computer through a one-sided click-through terms of service is not “conscionable” as lawyers say, and would not be enforceable even if the cars.gov website was capable of doing it, which we seriously doubt. Moreover, the law has long forbidden the government from requiring you to give up unrelated constitutional rights (here the 4th Amendment right to be free from search and seizure) as a condition of receiving discretionary government benefits like participation in the Cars for Clunkers program.

The problems with overreaching terms of service are real, and EFF has been working hard to combat them, especially when your privacy is at stake. Companies and government departments repeatedly sow the seeds of confusion, concern and outrage when they sneak catch-all terms into the small print. Our ToSBack site tracks these agreements and allows the public to find out what they say and track their changes over time. But terms of service agreements don’t go as far as allowing the government ongoing, free range into your personal computer with a single mouse click. At least not yet.

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Reply #2 - Aug 12th, 2009 at 4:32pm
 
Oh, I was wrong. 

Snopes already declared it bullshit.

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Yep...the scare mongering continues.

(last you'll see me posting to anything political)
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Re: Glenn Beck - Warning about the Feds & Your 'Puter
Reply #4 - Aug 12th, 2009 at 7:46pm
 
   The government can't even run something as simple as the Clunker Program, and you expect me to buy that they are going to zombie machines or run a "botnet". Just what are you smoking?

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