May's Banal Rant

[Paul Bradley]

> I don't understand this.  Of all the alphabet soup privacy groups out
> there, EPIC is the one I consider most pro-privacy and anonymity other
> than the ACLU itself.  And EPIC knows the tech better, on the whole
> (although the ACLU is quite clued-up too).  It is true that EPIC is not
> absolutist on SAFE -- and I'm not quite sure that they are right to give
> even the inch they gave to get a mile -- but they're awfully good.

I agree EPIC has been one of the better groups, but I personally feel 
none of them can ever do any good: They all sell out in the name of 
compromise.

Also, they seem to have people within them that simply do not understand 
what they are talking about, for example, Marc yesterday commented that 
he would support a law to ban private companies asking for SSNs for 
anything other than tax purposes, this is a clear misunderstanding of the 
nature of private companies and private property.

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