Comments on: Secret manual shows Comcast (gasp!) protects customers' privacy

Comcast's confidential manual describing procedures police should follow when requesting information on customers is now public.

[nicmart]

Comcast?

Hard to believe, but it seems like time to say something good
about Comcast. It appears to be a responsible policy. Unlike the
creeps at AT&T, who appear to make their company little more
than an agent of the executive branch.

[dubyahdee]

It's actually much better than the article suggests.

Agents don't really know where the office for hand delivery is, and no one at Comcast knows for sure either. When agents finally show up for "hand delivery" requests, they wait in line for an hour to find out Comcast just gave the last of those documents to some guy a few minutes ago. They then promise to mail the documents, but never do. When the Fed calls back, they say that mailing the documents is against policy, but they can come pick it up.

And the email retention policy doesn't matter because they store the emails on a Motorola PVR. It crashes every week or so and they lose all the data.

[Brentbb0]

Would appreciate knowing how you know this

It would be nice to believe you. Can you increase our confidence in what you say?

[jscott418]

For safety some privacy must be sacrificed

I personally am not paranoid about this. I am certain that a lot of
information is already out there and its a little late to worry about it
now.

[ben_franklin]

Essential Liberty and Temporary Safety

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

---

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

[devbost]

Fine...

...you move to China where you can be really, really safe, and the rest of us who don't buy that argument will continue trying to wrest privacy rights from an authoritarian government run amok.

[VelvetJonesLives]

Coward!!!

You sniveling coward. You don't deserve neither liberty nor safety.

[this1!]

who/what

are you talking to/about Velvet?

as much as i <3 yelling lunatics who believe their views are right just because they can say them louder, it would be nice for said views to be expressed in a manner so that others beside the yelling lunatic knows what said lunatic is talking about.

[sadchild]

now let's see the real one

now let's see the real one, not the one they printed and leaked to the media