Free internet in New York eliminates Privacy

New York City launched a project provides wireless Internet service (Wi-Fi) a year and free for residents of the city, but despite the usefulness of this project, the civil libertarians fear of how the massive data that clash against the service for its users, and describe him as a huge spy network.
The project includes the ambitious ten thousand points, wireless distributed across New York, and will be financed through advertising, which will provide according to the team responsible "rich platform understands the overall context for access to residents and visitors to New York." And carries the name "Link The Wi-C" or (linking New York City).
He describes the city's mayor, Bill de Palacio this project as a boon for the city is expected to earn a five hundred million dollars of advertising sales, but civil libertarians and they send him a letter expressing their concern about the amount of data that will be collected to provide personalized ads to users of the network.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, the registration service requires the user to use his e-mail and send data browsing the Internet, as well as information on the exact content they read and the things that clicks in when you use the Internet, and in general they retain personal information for any individual related to the service.
She says the company "City Bridge," which is behind the project -ovq Alathad- The data collected erased from the servers in the event of over 12 months on the lack of activity for the user on the network, so it is for ordinary users, this means they may log on to the service to be monitored for life, making them public spy network is huge.
But the Director General of the "linking New York," Jane Hensley said the company will not sell at all user information, and the law enforcement agencies do not have unrestricted access to the data, adding that the company requires a court order or legal request before sharing any information with the New York Police or law enforcement and that it would seek to communicate with the affected users to inform them of government requests.
Natalie Graybuskas spokeswoman for the city's mayor also confirmed to the newspaper Hovbust, the existence of the protection of privacy on public wireless system was developed in cooperation with the City Bridge Company, "to ensure the protection of users' personal information."
However, how the massive data that will be collected from users of the service in New York allows building a huge database assume the risk of security leaks or illegal operations monitored by city police, according to the American Civil Liberties Union in New York.
He adds, executive director of the Donna Lieberman Union that "the free public wireless network can be an invaluable resource for this city, but New Yorkers to know that there are too many restrictions."