Inside-Logger Blog

I was reading the other day a new version of the idea, or roomer if you prefer, that Microsoft could get involved in the “spy” software niche. Microsoft has already advanced a patent application for a computer system through which the employees should all be part of a wireless “spider” network that would monitor their metabolic features. I must add here that such an idea can raise one or two eyebrows in the Human Rights backyard and I can’t help myself to notice that Microsoft could now join in full daylight the Orwellian ideas that wonder around in our times. The evaluation of a worker based on a computer assessment of their mental and physical state it’s maybe too much, as unions also say.

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Here is some great news from the Inside Logger team: Inside Logger has teamed up with TrialPay. Now almost everyone knows, I guess, about the TrialPay system. The obvious advantage is that you can obtain a product you want for free if you choose one of the other hundreds of offers that TrialPay searches for you.

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Well, they will not take to it kindly, that’s for sure. But they will only take it as unkindly as they take you asking them about school, where they’re going, imposing curfews, asking them about their date, or telling them when to turn off the computer and go to bed. Using key logging software is not very different from this. It follows with the idea of knowing where your kids are going, who their friends are, and if they’re indulging in something that could get them into trouble. However, it does get a little different in the sense that instead of simply asking them about whom they are talking to or where they’re going – you actually tap the phone lines or follow them around. This might hit you a little hard, but that’s how it is.

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If you’ve always been keeping up-to-date with the latest on the Internet, you’ve probably heard of the little blooper FaceBook created for itself and then tried to set right. FaceBook, the social networking site which everyone seems to be addicted to, removed a clause from it’s user agreement which said user’s could remove content they posted any time they wished. Further, it added new language which said that FaceBook would retain account information once an account was deleted. For those of us who believed that we are in full control of our profiles on the Internet, the bubble had burst. However, users of FaceBook enraged at this change formed groups, forums and FaceBook, bowing to the pressure, revised its terms and conditions again.

Although in this case, many users will heave a sigh of relief, are we really sure of how safe we are and what is in our control on a social networking site? When FaceBook made the changes, or rather, “updated” its terms and conditions, it sent all its users a message to that effect. Now we all know how legal jargon can sound mind-numbingly confusing and boring. Therefore it was not until Consumerist, a blog of the Consumer Union interpreted exactly what these changes implied that users knew exactly what was happening. However, in the absence of such a blog post coming to our rescue, how many of us really read the Terms & Conditions of all the sites we sign up for? And how much privacy do we expect in on a social networking site where we voluntarily put up so much information about ourselves?

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