Gates to Privacy Rescue? Riiight!

[petro]

>At 2:27 PM -0800 12/10/00, petro wrote:
>>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.
>
>Sure, but I was making the point that this is an ironic example, as 
>it was the records which Firestone and Ford kept of their customers 
>which allowed them to send recall letters out to those customers!

	Oh, I wasn't speaking to that--I agree that there is a degree 
of irony there. I was just replying to the specific sentences quoted.
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