an23412@anon.penet.fi said:
My actual horoscope for today:
Uh-oh...your anonymity is partially compromised; we can now narrow down your identity 91.7 percent more closely than before! A few more slips like that and we'll have it down to one of several thousand choices... Speaking of privacy violations, a coworker relates a story from his father (ok, just a FOAF story, but it's still interesting): He needed to find his wife, who'd headed off for some errand and thence to the airport, leaving her spending cash at home. He called her on her cellular car phone, but she'd turned it off. He called Cellular One and explained the problem, and they told him over the phone where she was...he sped off and caught up with her. Although this was handy for him, it's an obvious privacy problem for Cellular One to tell someone where one of their customers is. Doug