NODE 1b96e688Re: In favour of privacy legislation
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab@best.com>Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:10:02 +0800
> Why shouldn't I be able to sell it. Information is free. If
> it's illegal to sell it in the US, I'm sure Marketing Info, Inc.,
> operating out of Costa Rica, would be happy to sell the information
> about your buying habits.
If we're talking about a US-based, on-shore operation, the reason
why you should not be able to sell my buying habits, ethical
and legal, would be that I gave them to you in the first place,
for a specific purpose. If we're talking about Costa Rica, which
has achieved mythical status as a data haven in some future
cupherpunked world, thenwe're not in the US any more. We're
in the world of the Internet, of the technology-is-law life
that appeals to so many of us (including me), and you wouldn't
be able to track my buying habits anyway.
I'd be using the alpha.c2.org remailer, which would have conveniently
located itself in - where else - Costa Rica.
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NODE 910b09bcRe: In favour of privacy legislation
sameer <sameer@c2.org>Thu, 29 Feb 1996 02:01:54 +0800
(Costa Rica was just an example. I don't claim that Costa Rica will be
the data haven of choice.)
Your point about alpha is exactly my point. You give merchant
your alpha address, and they can't do anything valuable with it. No
law necessary.
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NODE 3a3b76f2Re: In favour of privacy legislation
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab@best.com>Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:09:43 +0800
sameer@c2.org:
> Your point about alpha is exactly my point. You give merchant
> your alpha address, and they can't do anything valuable with it. No
> law necessary.
Laws protecting privacy are as (un)necessary as those protecting
free speech, with or without cpunk technologies such as alpha.
Speaking of which, are you still interested in writing that
paper on remailers?
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