{"id":407,"date":"2009-04-27T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T11:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattwork.potsdam.edu\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-06-17T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:09:52","slug":"they-lie-because-they-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/they-lie-because-they-can\/","title":{"rendered":"They Lie Because They Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/unfair_and_dece.html\">excellent pos<\/a>t about the data you&#8217;re voluntarilly giving to corporations. While he takes a consumerist view, and makes excuses for you <a href=\"http:\/\/mattwork.potsdam.edu\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/the-social-networking-disease\/\">frittering away your privacy<\/a> (which I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll appreciate), the meat of this article is that if you trust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\/\">corporations<\/a> to do the Right Thing with your information, you need to reassess why you trust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">profit-motivated entities<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 All that &#8220;community governance&#8221; crap is just a facade to get you to trust them with more information, so they can make more profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce has an excellent post about the data you&#8217;re voluntarilly giving to corporations. While he takes a consumerist view, and makes excuses for you frittering away your privacy (which I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll appreciate), the meat of this article is that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/they-lie-because-they-can\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,14,17],"tags":[42,47,62,78,79],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-opinions","category-rantstirades","category-work","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-myspace","tag-social-networking","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}