At 1:38 AM -0400 9/12/97, Lizard wrote:
<SETH>And here we see more of the cult's recruitment. Note how he always talks about the *GOVERNMENT* and the *IRS*. Why doesn't he talk about Pepsi or GM wanting the keys to your house? More of this 'government bad, business good' propaganda we've all grown so sick and tired of, being shoved down our throats. Small wonder this list has gone to hell!" </SETH>
Say what? Do you know how much companies pay for information about you as a member of a demographic? (Think Equifax, Nielsen, or any mailing
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company.)
Corporations want as much info on you as possible-- luckily, the only reason they want it is to sell you stuff, not to arrest you.
Sure...that's where the whole privacy debate comes in. Basic point is, if I take steps to hide that information from them, they can't shoot me. No company, to my knowledge, is claiming a *right* to know things about me -- they may demand to know things about me as their half of a contract, but I'm free to refuse, or falsify. And I often do. I wonder if the government could 'sell' GAK to liberals, at least the dumber ones (not anyone on this list), by saying, "And we'll use it to make sure that information collected about you on the web isn't used improperly!" (I mean, if businesses encrypt their internal communications unbreakably, things like civil rights suits and the Pinto 'smoking gun' will be harder to prove as well. ) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNBmEKTKf8mIpTvjWEQJz6gCfeN4BV0d5J6TD6mvId2eeJ7/fth4AnilS tF9NOBixl9726fSynKhxROrB =qgVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----