[Fed-Talk] Re: Postings on Google
[Fed-Talk] Re: Postings on Google
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Re: Postings on Google
- From: Brian Cadwell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:08:53 -0500
While good advice generally, it misses the point I didn't make clearly
enough. I doubt the New York times would reprint my fax number if they found
something news worthy in an email I wrote. Its not always the specific
subject content that people find interesting. People forwarding possibly
embarrassing emails is not the concern. Data mining is the concern. Paranoia
is the symptom? :)
I was naively posting thinking that this is a community where I would like
to exchange information (including contact info), and would not have to
worry that it's being provided to *anyone* with internet access. I'm sure I
probably breezed through whatever legal language that might have made
allowances for that when I signed up. I take ownership of my actions.
This is not a huge deal, but I would actually feel better if Apple
restricted search engines from archiving the list content (and cleaned up
what was out there). Tools like google give anyone the ability to take this
information totally out of context. Let people come directly to the Apple
lists webpage or just sign up and play along (even if they don't pay US
taxes).
bc
On 2/15/05 12:45 PM, "Cole, John (Civ, ARL/CISD)" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Write all email as if it will appear on the front page of the New York
> Times.
> To put it another way, never put anything sensitive or embarrassing in
> email.
> You may be exchanging mail with a trusted reader inside of your own
> organization.
> But mail gets forwarded and commented on to others who are third or
> fourth parties in your own organization who then send to someone or to a
> list outside. There are many innocent ways, in addition to malicious
> ways, in which your mail can (and too often does) wind up in a totally
> public forum. And there are FOIA requests.
>
> Just on Google? Amazing.
>
> -Jack
>
> Speak clearly, if you speak at all,
> Carve every word before you let it fall.
> Oliver Wendell Holmes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fed-talk-bounces+cole=email@hidden
> [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+cole=email@hidden] On Behalf Of
> Brian Cadwell
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:16 PM
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] who do you want on this list?
>
>
> I would note all these posts are on google. So, the world has access to
> (a slightly modified version of) this information even without signing
> up. Now that I've discovered that I intend to censoring my input to the
> list somewhat. I wish I had provided less contact information in past
> posts. The DoD does go out of it's way to keep an employees specific
> association off public web sites for good reasons.
>
> bc
>
>
bc
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