-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970613132302.23715J-100000@beast.brainlink.com>, on 06/13/97 at 01:58 PM, Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> said:
So, say that someone got your DMV records, found out where you lived, and murdered you. Would your family be able to sue the DMV? Sure it's public knowledge, but should it be? Should breeches of privacy be limited to "Breaking and Entering" or "hacking?" Isn't the fundemental problem not simply trespassing, but rather invasion of privacy?
Ray you seem to be missing the point here. Any state issued permit is public record. This includes your drivers license and your auto registration. It is imperative that in a democracy that the public know who and what the state is giving permits to (there whole other issue of wether the state should be issuing permits at all but that should be left to another thread). In a free and open society the public must be able to review the actions of its government. If Joe Sixpack has run over 20 people because he gets his kicks out of it and the DMV still issues him a license the public has a right to know. If the California DMV is secretly denying driving license to anyone who posts to the cypherpunks list the only way anyone would know is by examining the DMV records. If the state is going to issue permits on what people can and can not do the it is crutial that the public can examine these records to insure that the state is not abusing this power. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 iQCVAwUBM6GQmo9Co1n+aLhhAQGABwP+OWqazI5cQ7ySLbCZOoq0vmJEhpq6BDg7 3W5x8Ghp+zWIDMt02fyGBgUvROfbgr0SU3Qt26Lu9udMleW400mk3lQYvadPOKMU Utpgr8octdaKfSNzO3S6LfyME6Ouoy4GhyJ/0rQPZBKJZbWrH5fSTzCB00jck6Uo YVRHdDKeDV0= =xqpR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----