Re: FreedomBox

[Michael Whapples <mikster4@msn.com>]

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