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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:57:25PM -0400, David Honig wrote:
At 01:37 AM 10/16/00 -0400, Nathan Saper wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:11:19PM -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:
Have you been sealed in a box the last ten years? Companies may send you junk mail. Governments will confiscate your property and put you in jail,.
Companies are wanting to keep records of genetic information and other HUGE infringments on privacy. Sure, right now, the bigger risk is the government (what with Carnivore and all), but I'd say that in less than a decade, global corporations will be much more powerful than any government. Already, with WTO/NAFTA/etc. regulations, corporations are often outside of the control of governments.
Hilarious. You make JD's point. A company just wants to estimate the cost to insure you. A government wants to take your DNA at a traffic stop and run it against their collection so they can arrest you.
When do cops take DNA at traffic stops?
Even if they do (which I haven't heard of, but I could be wrong), the trend right now is more corporate power, less governmental power. As I said before, we are already seeing this trend, what with corporations able to circumvent countries' environmental codes and whatnot. It will only get worse.
Then you aren't paying attention. Corporations have *NO* power over you that doesn't come from the barrel of a government gun. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural