[LINK] google misdeeds and Australia's Privacy Commissioner

[Jan Whitaker]

At 12:03 PM 22/06/2010, Stilgherrian wrote:
>On 22/06/2010, at 11:53 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> > [so how can she assert that "only fragments" were
> > collected? This is illogical.]
>
>Because if one has an explanation of the technology being used, one 
>can make inferences about what is and isn't possible. That, too, is logic.

Only if you believe them. But if Google has been told not to look at 
the collected data, they are all operating from ignorance. They may 
not have by definition been able to collect encrypted data or they 
made the decision to discard it because it was unusable (therefore 
they had to know it was encrypted in order to make that decision). 
But other passwords are entered in the clear. They should not have 
accessed that data. They had no use for it. Therefore it breaches the 
Privacy Act principle of collection. Therefore she is not 
interpreting the Act properly.

Jan



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