Jeremy Irish wrote:

Many seem to faint in the site of Microsoft knowing your location -

Jeremy, This is not about "fainting" , and the problem is -much- larger than Microsoft. Privacy concerns, have in part delayed the availibility of location APIs from telcos and from others including Google, et. al. Intel has been widely praised for breaking a conceptual logjam. When it became clearer that Microsoft was actually going to productize the technology, a lot of us expected that they would embrace the same philosophy in their implementation. Instead, the published a privacy disclaimer that, instead of reinforcing privacy -equivocated- on privacy, despite the misleading and insincere introduction " your privacy is important" The good news is that I got a note, this morning from Microsoft [thanks Nat] agreeing essentially and promising to revisit the policy and to draft a new privacy statement to reflect a genuine emphasis on privacy in the "location finder" service ofering. -Mike _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list Geowanking@lists.burri.to http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]