Gates to Privacy Rescue? Riiight!

[petro]

Mr. May:

>
>The author also mentions that consumers dislike (so?) tracking of 
>their purchases...and then in the next paragraphs cites the 
>Firestone tire recall as an example of better policy than most Web 
>sites have (or something like this...I re-read his analogy several 
>times and still wasn't sure what his claim was). But
	I took that statement to mean that if Firestone exercised the 
same level of diligence in the engineering of their tires that most 
web sites used, they would be recalling a *LOT* more tires, enough to 
make the current recall a drop in the bucket.
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