At 12:47 PM 2/11/00 -0800, Glenn Hauman wrote:
>Going on: you tend to shop and eat in the more, shall we say, flamboyant
parts of Greenwich Village. (Don't try and deny it-- I have records of your
dinner exploits while you were in NYC. Every Thursday night, with a bunch
of "free thinkers". Obviously, you're a troublemaker.)
>
I was only spying on them to look for possible dissidents. :)
But as I noted in another rpely, this is info anyone with a grudge can
easily aquire. The main difference is ease of access. I don't have to hire
a detective to trail you, I can just snoop the web. But if it is legal to
the one -- to have someone follow you on PUBLIC streets, note what PUBLIC
stores you enter or exit, make guesses as to what you might be buying, etc
-- then why does it become a crime when the exact same thing is done
electronically?
Once again, I reiterate -- the solution is better end-user security and
anonymization, not new laws. But increasing personal privacy by focusing on
the information SOURCE, not the information COLLECTOR, is anathema to them
what makes the rules.
