On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
"Bob, I see here that you are "demanding" a copy of this test that I paid for, that you voluntarily provided a sample for, or that you were careless enough to leave some skin flakes for on my sofa over there in the office.
The first two parts: ok by all means. People simply shouldn't submit to such shitty treatment. It's too bad more of us do not refuse. About the last part: how is this different from the government using IR scanning to invade your privacy? This is about a reasonable expectation of privacy. And don't tell me the Men with Guns make a difference - the government could achieve its goals quite well purely through economic means. Zaibatsu-like company states offer prime examples of how to structure this. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university