On Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 08:58:36AM -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote: [...]
You have two choices you can take the Libertarian view of a minimal governement where all it's actions are reveiwable by it's citizens or you can take the Statest view of big governemtn where all is's actions are hidden and all "solutions" are more regulation and biger government.
The consistent libertarian/anarchist view of this would be that the privacy or non-privacy of records is completely determined by contract between the person supplying the information and the agency collecting it. For example, a medical license would be granted by agencies that granted such licenses. If you wanted a license from a particular agency you would deal with them. The value of the license is determined by the reputation of the agency, not whether or not they give out doctors home addresses.
The whole privacy issue is a strawman proped up by the government to frighten the sheeple so they can pass their agenda. What's their agenda? To have a series of privacy laws they can hide behind to keep their actions hidden from public view.
An amusing example of a conspiracy theory. You are pretty good at these, you know. :-) -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html