As Kenny pointed out most places have a privacy policy, I can't find one on the freedombox website. Using your example of google, if you look for it you will find a privacy policy for that. The amount of information required to sign up for a trial account with freedombox is quite alot, and is personal, why should I want to give it out with out knowing how it will be used. With out seeing a privacy policy, I may be agreeing that the information submitted can be handed on to other companies for advertising purposes. I am not saying this how the information is used, but there is nothing that tells me how it will be. Mike Ann K. Parsons writes: > Hi all, > > I suggest, respectfully, that unless you have documented evidence of > wrong doing, you cease and desist from libeling a product or its > creators/maintainers. It is not a wise thing to speculate like this. > Moreover, it damages people's reputation. > > I don't have any evidence for or against all this hoopla except that I > haven't gotten any more spam than normal since I joined Freedom Box. > I'm not a techie, and I can't make judgments about this kind of > thing. > > However, I would venture to say that since any web site you go to for > shopping, for pleasure and so on does track your activity, what's the > beef here? > > Though I am not a techie, I can speak to the talents of Freedom Box's > head programmer who, when forced to do so, was instrumental in > protecting the security of GrassRoots MOO, and that was even before he > went to college. If he says there isn't any activity that he knows > about that is tracking you, then I'll believe him. > > C'mon guys, the problem with all this speculation is that it's > probably not true, and if it is, is probably much less harmful than > you think. What is harmful is spreading unsubstantiated rumors. > Rumors are just that, rumors. Heck, guys, google tracks you when you > go there, probably. So do the other search engines. What you gonna > do, stop searching the net? > > You can get all revved up about this if you want to, but I'd rather > see Freedom Box help those for whom it was designed. It's a good > product. It works well. It shouldn't be plagued by rumors. If you > don't like it, then don't buy it. I don't buy grape juice cuz I don't > like it. I buy orange juice and v8. > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons
