fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen) writes:
- The Russian revolution resulted in purges killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people because of their private, turned public, views as expoused in their private writings.
Correction: tens of millions were killed (including my great-grandfather).
- The Soviet government took away personal privacy to keep their stranglehold on their people.
It's interesting to note that the democratic Russian government banned all unlicenced cryptography this year. (I posted the translation of Yeltsin's decreee to this list). ...
- The Germans under Hitler used personal records to identify and murder millions of Jews and other peoples.
One conspiciously absent example: the Roosevelt administration used the census data (supposedly confidential) to ferret out persons of Japanese descent, who were then sent to concentration camps. --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps