Meanwhile, the Bush and Gore campaigns are doing their own discussion on privacy policies, led by Markey, who thinks that the Feds have a right to control what goes on Cable TV because lots of people watch Public Television on cable, (Goldsmith I don't know... Robbin, do you know him?) and moderated by Etzioni, who doesn't believe your right to privacy includes keeping the Feds from eavesdropping, and invented "Fair Cryptography" to make it easier for them. I seem to remember Etzioni being tied into the Communitarian movement as well. Much as I think the Naderites are wrong in their idea that more government control can improve privacy, this seems like a setup for a debate on "Privacy - Threat or Menace"....
ADVISORY GORE/BUSH FORUM ON PRIVACY TO BE HELD OCTOBER 16 10:30 AM, THE MONARCH HOTEL, WASHINGTON, DC
Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) will present the Gore campaign's views on privacy; Bush's senior domestic policy advisor and former mayor of Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith, will present the views of the Bush campaign.
Amitai Etzioni, author of The Limits of Privacy will moderate.
Open to the public and to the press: feel free to invite your students or colleagues. A Q&A will follow the presentations.
Sponsored by the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at The George Washington University.
For more information, contact: Joanna Cohn Outreach Coordinator 202.994.8190 comnet@gwu.edu
At 03:19 PM 10/9/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/09/1933206&mode=nested
Nader Sends Privacy Quiz to Bush and Gore posted by cicero on Monday October 09, @02:22PM from the never-liked-those-safeway-discount-cards-anyway dept.
Vergil Bushnell of Ralph Nader's presidential campaign just sent us news about a privacy survey. Turns out the Green Party hopeful wants to nail down where rivals George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on things like supermarket videocameras and marketing by Internet service providers. Unfortunately, Ralph doesn't include any questions exclusively on the topic of government surveillance, such as wiretapping, Echelon, or Carnivore -- which are precisely the areas the next Oval Office occupant can do the most to reform. Nader is, typically, focused only on corporate wrongdoing. His privacy survey is is attached below.
The survey: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/09/1933206&mode=nested
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