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Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
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1 edit | Allow Me To Translate... quote:
"We've tried to make our policy more customer friendly," says Verizon's Chief Privacy Officer, Kathy Zanowic, who ads the carrier believes consumer trust is an "essential" to their business and an "important responsibility."
for the corporate-speak impaired: I promise not to come in your mouth. | |
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| ross
join:2000-08-16
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| said by major marco  : quote:
"We've tried to make our policy more customer friendly," says Verizon's Chief Privacy Officer, Kathy Zanowic, who ads the carrier believes consumer trust is an "essential" to their business and an "important responsibility."
for the corporate-speak impaired: I promise not to come in your mouth. Succinctly, and accurately put. Thanks for the translation. | |
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| k1ll3rdr4g0n
join:2005-03-19
Homer Glen, IL
| said by major marco : quote:
"We've tried to make our policy more customer friendly," says Verizon's Chief Privacy Officer, Kathy Zanowic, who ads the carrier believes consumer trust is an "essential" to their business and an "important responsibility."
for the corporate-speak impaired: I promise not to come in your mouth. Just one question:
Did you use an application to translate that? Google translate perhaps? | |
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| sonicmerlin
join:2009-05-24
Cleveland, OH | Wow...why would you use such gay imagery? I can understand your contempt, but you made me gag from utter revulsion. | |
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SLD
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join:2002-04-17 | Re: Allow Me To Translate... What, you're homophobic? | |
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cdru
Go Colts
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| Re: Allow Me To Translate... said by SLD :What, you're homophobic? I'm sure by "gay" sonicmerlin was just referring to the happy, joyous definition. | |
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major marco
Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
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Stepford, CA
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2 edits | said by sonicmerlin :Wow...why would you use such gay imagery? I can understand your contempt, but you made me gag from utter revulsion. That was the point. I am utterly repulsed by the newfound sweet nothings the VZ PR dept is now whispering into our collective ears about how privacy is sooooooooooooooo important to them now...you know, after that whole surrendering of records to the NSA for no other apparent reason than because they felt like it. The very same VZ et al. spent millions convincing our illustrious Congre$$ional Repre$entative$ they did nothing wrong. It reminded me of what a 15 y/o would say to get his reluctant GF to orally fellate him.
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join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | "...why would you use such gay imagery?"
Um, what makes that gay? I say that to women all the time!  | |
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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·Embarq Now Century..
| Verizon must prove they are sincere. If Verizon wants to prove they are sincere about customer privacy they must keep all customer information confidential and only allow the information be released if the customer authorizes release of information. If the customer ops in the customer should be given a choice of who receives their personal information and what information is divulged. If Verizon creates any policy other than the above, they are not sincere. | |
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visuelz
join:2003-05-01
Brooklyn, NY | happy I'm actually glad they're saying this. It just means I can download and upload all I want, and it will be fine  | |
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sapo
This isn't my only hat
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join:2002-09-16
Sacramento, CA | No need Verizon I believe the government should have open access to all our lines including those for internet. This will ensure our country will be safe and prevent any sort of terrorist threats.
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SLD
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join:2002-04-17 | Re: No need Verizon LOL! It will also insure that the gov't has a docket on you if you ever become a pain in their ass. | |
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| | chimera
join:2009-06-09
Washington, DC | Re: No need Verizon True, but they could just lie about it anyways. At least if they have real information it's possible to blame them for failing to stop legitimate threats. Hell, from time to time it even helps put people behind bars who really do deserve it. | |
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Whatev
@swbell.net | The /s at the end of his message is shorthand for an "end of sarcasm" markup tag. | |
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SLD
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join:2002-04-17 | Re: No need Verizon The "LOL" at the beginning of my message is shorthand for "Laughing Out Loud". Thanks for the dummy's guide though... | |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| If they respect privacy why worry about Government Laws? If they have a desire to have a privacy policy, why are they afraid of having the Government establish one by law unless they are trying to hide something or not establish one that is as strong as the Law Mandates? The Law establishes MINIMUM standards and you can have stricter ones. The fact that they oppose Federal Standards means that they are unwilling to obey them and want to be able to establish weak "feel good" useless ones that allow them to do what they want to NOT protect the data of their customers. | |
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AnonDOG
@rogers.com
| Verizon and Privacy???? Fact:
Verizon operates a full duplex multichannel trunking system which services Richmond, Washington D.C, Norfolk and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, all of rural eastern Virginia, and Suffolk and points south.
The system retransmits every call, whether over land line or not, over the air. It operates between 910 MHz and 920 MHz on 20 KHz channels and as I said it is full duplex. It is an analog system. Modulation is FM. Voice is transmitted in the clear. I have not analyzed the system for channel spacing; however, I can make some reasoned guesses. There are about 50 channels per MHz on a 10 MHz system that is about 500 channels. One or two channels will be control data and 498 will be voice. Call initiators will likely be the lower channels and call receivers will likely be the higher channels. That gives us about 249 simultaneous conversations on the system.
Anyone with a simple Radio Shack scanner, anywhere in eastern Virginia, can monitor the telephone calls on that system because it is not encrypted. Anyone with to scanners who understands the channel plan can monitor both ends of any conversation occurring on that system. Anyone who finds the command channel and decodes that (not as hard as you might think) could easily put together a system that monitors the telephone numbers in use and targets specific Verizon customers by telephone number. Verizon *knows* all of this.
Now it is illegal for you to monitor that system but we all know that the law keeps honest people honest, dishonest people by definition break laws... so...
Yeah, Verizon is real worried about your privacy... NOT. Verizon *knows* all of this but they add nodes to the system every month or two. They make a big deal about your security, until it comes to actually engineering a secure system that protects your communications, then they could give a shit less.
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
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join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
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| Re: If that is so... said by kieranmullen :Why do they attach a customers physical address to the whois lookup of a static IP address on FIOS without any ability to change it exchange to private residence only on request? Ditto for cablevision/optonline business internet services. They publish the full name, address, phone number and email address in the ARIN db - they don't even run a local rwhois server for this.
I've had no luck getting this info removed/altered.
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Rojo
join:2009-04-14
New York, NY | I'll believe Verizon ...when they create the position of Verizon Consumer Privacy czar and hire Mark Klein to run it. | |
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old_wiz_60
join:2005-06-03
Bedford, MA | Verizon is very truthful! They tell absolute truth!
And Santa Claus lives!
And the Easter bunny brings me chocolate eggs!
Ha! | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| Sounds like a new slogan or gingle... Or maybe that recording you hear when you call customer service... "your call is important to us", etc
Whatever the case, the new HIGHER upload speeds, along with the $$ Higher $$ pricetag may just be the reasons why Verizon wants to play nice cop in the public eye while daring the cable companies to raise their upload tiers.
Afterall, the easiest to use bittorrent site The Pirate Bay just changed hands and the loyal fanbase are flocking to other search engines. So, score one for the entertainment industry... there will be NO one stop shopping for 'pirated' movies, and content anymore. A one stop cable-tv torrent rss feed now seems less likely without the origianl TPB on the scene.. now the ball is in the cable industry's hands, will they stop bit caps? will they truely compete with telco? who knows... but they better do it soon or risk losing customers this year in competitive markets. Matching 15mbit upload will max out docsis 2.0's upload capabilites. So ante up the 3.0 equipment quick! | |
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cyclone_z
join:2006-06-19
Ames, IA | Easy way to detect lies How can you tell if Verizon is lying? Simple, see if they're posting on the policy blog. | |
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