PRIVACY: Private traces in public places

[Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]]

> 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.
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