-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03007800afb68a25627d@[205.177.146.237]>, on 05/31/97 at 10:27 PM, Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg@epic.org> said:
At 6:05 PM -0700 5/31/97, Marc Rotenberg wrote:
What examples do you have where privacy is included in a contractual arrangement?
- a lender agrees to transfer the information provided only to specified parties, and not to the newspapers . . .
Good examples. Many are codified in statue, created by common law, industry practice, or professional obligation. Virtually none are tied to specific, negotiated contracts.
One of the biggest problems with libertarian theories is that they are descriptively flawed as applied in the real world. In practice, perfect markets rarely exist, laws do protect rights, and there are a lot of efficiencies -- economic, technological, and otherwise -- in promoting the highest level of safeguards across similar activities, e.g. you get into a car, you expect that the brakes will work. You don't express a negotiated preference for how much you want your brakes to work.
Marc you really need to pick better examples for making your point. :) Not only is government regulation unnecesary to insure passenger safty in automobiles I can site what happend with Tucker as a prime example of how government power was used to prevent the free market from bringing safty inovations to the general public. The biggest problem with libertarian ideals is that the never get implemented before some statest jumps in with their own power grab "solution" to the problem. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 iQCVAwUBM5EDpI9Co1n+aLhhAQHJ/AQAlGXirFFE/Cp+ZrXh7dREGrKBz7ftROq1 4VKhATlNHxWSOhX9sgyd3+QazW1ojhG6He/xCjJ9JOuhuNaWA292/BOynkweDf4I ltdKNHyqV9fk2ZZpeAXCSvYyK1TSuMobL7MSvLcmfFz8DL1hNkFKBl0R546ZNJFq GopDQzlUmzE= =6+NB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----