Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

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Steven Rombom, founder of international investigation firm Pallorium, delivered an interesting presentation at a hackers conference in 2008 on the death of privacy.
In it, he described how much information on each of us is readily available. If you doubt that privacy is dead, it might [...]

Recently, Darrel Ince wrote, “Many climate scientists have refused to publish their computer programs. I suggest is that [sic] this is both unscientific behaviour and, equally importantly, ignores a major problem: that scientific software has got a poor reputation for error.”
Ince cites work conducted by Les Hatton, “an international expert in software testing resident in [...]

Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, says that individuals no longer have an expectation of privacy, as evidenced by the growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook.
Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, is quoted saying, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
George [...]

A couple days ago, I addressed some issues associated with trading liberty for safety. If the past decade has taught us nothing else, we have unequivocal evidence that moves toward a police state and a surveillance society, and away from rule of law, are bad for business.
For investors, this is less tragic than it [...]

The Register quotes Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
Click here, and listen for yourself.
Never mind that statutes are written by individuals who have political, religious, and personal agendas that might not be ‘right’ or ‘good’ by [...]

For those of our dear readers who chafe at the idea of a national ID card, just… stop.
Privacy is deader than a Norwegian Blue parrot.
They know when you are sleeping. They know when you’re awake. They know if you’ve been good or bad.
The upside is that each of us is up to no [...]