-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970613112827.23715F-100000@beast.brainlink.com>, on 06/13/97 at 11:38 AM, Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> said:
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Oh, and at least read the whole article.
-Declan
Privacy? What Privacy?
by Declan McCullagh June 12, 1997
I have a confession to make: Unlike many of my civil libertarian colleagues, I believe you have no general right to privacy online. Sure, you have the right to protect your personal data, but you shouldn't be able to stop someone else from passing along that information if you let it leave your computer. That's your responsibility.
I still disagree, and not just online. There is plenty of information that you have no control over but should. Your credit card transactions for instance can be looked up by any scumbag willing to pay money to TRW and it's ilk. Your DMV records, your health records. In theory only those that need to know this knowledge should be able to access it, and in practice what have we seen so far?
Well lets see CC transactions are not just your info but the CC issuers info & the merchants info. Should it be illegal for you to tell anyone that you bought a HD from Segate or that you used your Carte Blanch card to do it? If you don't like it pay *CASH*. Health Records are only between you and your doctor unless you bring in a 3rd party (aka health insurance). Once you do that you have opened up your records to whatever the policy of your insurance company is, don't like it get a different insurance company or pay for it in, look out now, *CASH*!!! (I have paid the last 10yrs of medical & dental bills all in cash). DMV records? They are treated the same as *ANY* state licence, they are part of the public record. This includes land titles, auto titles, birth certificates, death certificates, marrage & devorce records, any perfesional license (Doctor, Engeneere, CPA, Archetic, ...ect). As far as your driving record *ALL* court procedings are open to the public. In a free and open society it is not only desired that this information be made public but it is required!! You can not have a free society if everything the government does is hidden away behind closed doors.
If I give XYZ corp any info I expect them not to sell that info without my permission. Verily, that information is valuable, therefore if they want to sell it, they should get my permission, and should pay me for it.
Why? Have you entered into any agreement that they would not sell this information? Why is this information any more yours that it is theirs? How can you claim title to property after you have given it away??? Ray you really should re-take Democracy 101 before you start ranting like this. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM6F3OI9Co1n+aLhhAQGV+AP9HIiuM6hy1h0j7tFYTMXHa08hZuAIjSUJ CiURxHerZPAAE3ZPjjT6WllVmofz25Cg7rhfKXmaCaDh+Px8kEur6qFV6jZk/Az/ 0MhLTHuz0foID5TKA24W/p/WrLuOIbQpAnPV1ukb38DjoQ/En1TYFItNe+Jbv75m sWSuYyPffHE= =TvrX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----