FW: Fwd: Orweliean - You be the judge.

[Nick Thompson]

Dear "List",

 

This claim seems EXTREMELY suspect.  Have any of you heard the same claim.  How do you evaluate it?

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,

Clark University ([hidden email])

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

 

 

 

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Subject: Fwd: Orweliean - You be the judge.

A Foxnews / Glenn Beck piece shows that logging onto the U.S. government web site www.cars.gov for any reason automatically confers rights of access and even ownership of your computer, as well as the contents therein to the U.S. government…, judge for yourselves.

 

 

 http://www.wikio.com/video/1479672

 

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[Robert Holmes]

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/cars-gov-terms-service

-- Robert

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear "List",

 

This claim seems EXTREMELY suspect.  Have any of you heard the same claim.  How do you evaluate it?

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,

Clark University ([hidden email])

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: [hidden email]

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[hidden email]Sent: 8/10/2009 8:26:54 AM

Subject: Fwd: Orweliean - You be the judge.

A Foxnews / Glenn Beck piece shows that logging onto the U.S. government web site www.cars.gov for any reason automatically confers rights of access and even ownership of your computer, as well as the contents therein to the U.S. government…, judge for yourselves.

 

 

 http://www.wikio.com/video/1479672

 

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[Robert Cordingley]

First I don't know where one 'logs in'.  Second all the Privacy notices etc seem to go to the generic www.dot.gov site.  Thirdly, I can't find the text of the claim after a few minutes browsing and 'Find'ing.  Fourthly when I Google the beginning phrase 'This application provides access to the DoT CARS' brings up a ton of links all it seems perpetrating the same conspiracy theory.  After scanning the first 4 pages and still no 'cars.gov' link showing up - it's more than EXTREMELY suspect.   Fifth see the entry at snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/clunkers.asp  which gives the background and history of the rumor in gory detail.

Time to move on and wish the bloggers and perpetrators could use their time and energies more productively.

Thanks
Robert C

Nicholas Thompson wrote:

Dear "List",

 

This claim seems EXTREMELY suspect.  Have any of you heard the same claim.  How do you evaluate it?

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,

Clark University ([hidden email])

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: [hidden email]

To: List Suppressed

Sent: 8/10/2009 8:26:54 AM

Subject: Fwd: Orweliean - You be the judge.

A Foxnews / Glenn Beck piece shows that logging onto the U.S. government web site www.cars.gov for any reason automatically confers rights of access and even ownership of your computer, as well as the contents therein to the U.S. government…, judge for yourselves.

 

 

 http://www.wikio.com/video/1479672

 

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