Privacy
Privacy Issues
During its initial phase, Xamplify stated the following about "privacy" 1
Xamplify guarantees the user exactly this control. We are working with trusted privacy companies to develop a highly secure privacy infrastructure. Our users will have the ability to share as much or as little personal information as they want--and will retain the right to opt in or out of the system at will. Xamplify software will protect their private data and online interactions from surveillance, and will grant or revoke corporate and institutional access to it through informed choice.
About a year later Xamplify left the issue in its corporate clients' control:2
How do you handle the privacy issues that this type of technology is likely to raise?
The applications we develop and sell do allow our customers to maintain highly detailed and actionable information on their customers, but the disposition of that information is subject to the privacy policies and procedures of our customers.
About a year later, during the end of May, 2002, Xamplify was recommending the following about certain individuals:3
I wonder what does Terry Winograd, an advocate of privacy, think of this?
- Report suspicions
- Intensive monitoring
- Restrict associated overseas account
Locally saved links from archive.org + Company's website:
1. Xamplify's Privacy Page of July 11, 20002. Xamplify's Privacy Page of July 22, 2001
3. Xamplify's Approach Page of May 31, 2002