At 10:16 PM 12/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:

On Sunday, Dec 22, 2002, at 21:28 US/Eastern, Steve Schear wrote:

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At 09:59 AM 12/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:10:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas From: Charles Evans <cwe@chyden.net> To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>

How long do you think it would be before the ISP described below would receive a cease and desist letter, ordering it to remove the cameras, in order to protect customer privacy?

I guess it would depend on the ISP's posted privacy policy. There are no regulations, AFAIK, that set some minimum standard for customer privacy.

The customer privacy part would be an excuse. Your legal-irony hack is too clever to stand unchallenged.

It would be interesting. In a way it would be a test of Brin. One way might be to have property management companies build total surveillance into their leases. Could a court prevent a company from becoming transparent to its customers.

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If the ISP accepted only DMT or e-gold payments, which are anonymous, it would not be likely to reveal much about a customer's privacy during the course of normal office conversations except perhaps their email address.

How do you mean anonymous? Do you mean untraceable?

Well I'd never say untraceable, however, DMT does not require any meat space customer information. See https://196.40.46.24/ If you can't join 'em, beat 'em. -- W's global policy of hegenomy