CDR: Re: Ralph Nader sends privacy survey to Bush and Gore campaigns

[Bill Stewart]

Meanwhile, the Bush and Gore campaigns are doing their own 
discussion on privacy policies, led by Markey, who thinks
that the Feds have a right to control what goes on Cable TV
because lots of people watch Public Television on cable,
(Goldsmith I don't know... Robbin, do you know him?)
and moderated by Etzioni, who doesn't believe your right to
privacy includes keeping the Feds from eavesdropping,
and invented "Fair Cryptography" to make it easier for them.

I seem to remember Etzioni being tied into the Communitarian
movement as well.

Much as I think the Naderites are wrong in their idea that
more government control can improve privacy,
this seems like a setup for a debate on
"Privacy - Threat or Menace"....


>>ADVISORY
>>GORE/BUSH FORUM ON PRIVACY TO BE HELD OCTOBER 16
>>10:30 AM, THE MONARCH HOTEL,  WASHINGTON, DC
>>
>>Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) will present the Gore campaign's views on
>>privacy; Bush's senior domestic policy advisor and former mayor of
>>Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith, will present the views of the Bush
campaign.
>>
>>Amitai Etzioni, author of The Limits of Privacy will moderate.
>>
>>Open to the public and to the press: feel free to invite your students or
>>colleagues.
>>A Q&A will follow the presentations.
>>
>>Sponsored by the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at The George
>>Washington University.
>>
>>For more information, contact:
>>Joanna Cohn
>>Outreach Coordinator
>>202.994.8190
>>comnet at gwu.edu




At 03:19 PM 10/9/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>
>http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/09/1933206&mode=nested
>
>    Nader Sends Privacy Quiz to Bush and Gore
>    posted by cicero on Monday October 09, @02:22PM
>    from the never-liked-those-safeway-discount-cards-anyway dept.
>
>    Vergil Bushnell of Ralph Nader's presidential campaign just
>    sent us news about a privacy survey. Turns out the Green Party hopeful
>    wants to nail down where rivals George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on
>    things like supermarket videocameras and marketing by Internet service
>    providers. Unfortunately, Ralph doesn't include any questions
>    exclusively on the topic of government surveillance, such as
>    wiretapping, Echelon, or Carnivore -- which are precisely the areas
>    the next Oval Office occupant can do the most to reform. Nader is,
>    typically, focused only on corporate wrongdoing. His privacy survey is
>    is attached below.
>
>The survey:
>http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/09/1933206&mode=nested
>
>
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology
>You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact.
>To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html
>This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart at pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF  3C85 B884 0ABE 4639