Re: PRIVACY: Private traces in public places
Responding to msg by nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) on Wed, 10 Jan 1:43 PM
Last summer the first case in Britain of a libel on the Internet was settled out of court when Laurence Godfrey accepted undisclosed damages from another nuclear physicist, Philip Hallam-Baker, over remarks made in 1993 on Usenet, an electronic conference with 16 million users. And Peter Lilley, the Social Security Secretary, sent a stiff letter to the vice-chancellor of Leeds University after one of its students used a faculty computer to make defamatory allegations about him.
---------- The NYT reports that by 2000 there will be over 1 million lawyers in the US. These fine-minders, supported by the burgeoning private investigative and security fields, will surely mine electronic archives as thoroughly as they research paper -- and thanks to wondrous Altavistas maybe more thoroughly. And backed by these highly skilled lobbyists, laws will change to make remunerative rain of -- and by -- archiving and search technology as they have to capitalize on the technology of doing the same in the worlds of printing, telegraph, telephone and television. Promotion of these privacy-invasive services on the Net parallels the defensive measures explored on cypherpunks. Perhaps all c'punks should subscribe to cyberia-l and vice versa; they are hand in hand, or fist to fist, on this.
These fine-minders, supported by the burgeoning private investigative and security fields, will surely mine electronic archives as thoroughly as they research paper -- and thanks to wondrous Altavistas maybe more thoroughly.
And backed by these highly skilled lobbyists, laws will change to make remunerative rain of -- and by -- archiving and search technology as they have to capitalize on the technology of doing the same in the worlds of printing, telegraph, telephone and television.
Promotion of these privacy-invasive services on the Net parallels the defensive measures explored on cypherpunks.
Agreed. You don't even have to read the newsgroup or the web page - just search for "John Young" or "Ed Carp", and in a few seconds read everything your detractors have been saying about you anywhere on the net. Then all it takes is one phone call to your lawyer. -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes
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