[ NNSquad ] Hype Alert: NPR: Making Permanent Digital Records Not So Permanent

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Hype Alert: NPR: Making Permanent Digital Records Not So Permanent

http://j.mp/THeVdx  (NPR)

   "The Internet is forever - and so are texts, tweets and Facebook
    updates - but a startup has big ambitions to bring privacy and
    impermanence to online communication. The company, called Wickr, lets
    users decide how long a message lives."

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Hype Alert: These sorts of stories are, basically, total farces.
There are no messages, images, etc. that you can send to another party
that cannot be preserved by them indefinitely -- with a digital camera
if nothing else.  Claims of self-destructing messages and other data
in these contexts are misleading hype.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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