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I've just had a phone call from someone. "Oh, you'll be surprised to get this call, I expect".
yes - I was. Because I had looked at his web site yesterday, and he extracted our IP from his logs (presumably), and discovering that I was a web developer, rang me up to see why I was looking at them, and what I thought of them.
now, I know that web logs catch this information - and indeed, we capture it ourselves, and analyse it. But I would never *ever* dream of phoning someone who had appeared in my web logs - I think that's a real invasion of privacy.
am I alone?
yes - I was. Because I had looked at his web site yesterday, and he extracted our IP from his logs (presumably), and discovering that I was a web developer, rang me up to see why I was looking at them, and what I thought of them.
now, I know that web logs catch this information - and indeed, we capture it ourselves, and analyse it. But I would never *ever* dream of phoning someone who had appeared in my web logs - I think that's a real invasion of privacy.
am I alone?
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Date: 2006-08-01 10:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-08-01 10:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-08-01 11:22 am (UTC)I'd use logs for getting some feel for the amount of traffic, finding out about unexpected referrers or unusual agent strings, pinning down the causes of 404s so I can fix them ... all sorts of things like that.
But I'd feel deeply uneasy if I thought someone was studying my entry in their log on an individual basis.
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Date: 2006-08-01 11:24 am (UTC)three little words
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Date: 2006-08-01 11:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-08-01 01:05 pm (UTC)Luckily I think my phone number is being black listed by most cold callers because I *will* keep them on the phone for five minutes explaining that I haven't got a phone.