Smart cards "a giant leap backwards" - Canadian Privacy Commissioner

Duncan Frissell frissell at panix.com
Wed Jul 31 11:46:38 PDT 1996


At 02:23 PM 7/30/96 -0400, Richard Martin wrote:
>Very little that might be new or enlightening to the world; attendees
>of CFP '96 will remember [fuzzily, in my case] the closest thing to
>Bruce's counterpart in the states admitting that the USA doesn't actually
>have much of a counterpart to the privacy commissioner.

Most Central European countries have both privacy commissioners and legal
requirements that everyone register their addresses with the police.  I'll
do without the former if I can also avoid the latter.

DCF







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