Tim May scribe:
>
> At 1:10 AM -0400 7/13/00, Kevin Elliott wrote:
>
> >This belief seems to be evolving
> >toward government enforced privacy laws. The thing that strikes me
> >however is that the original right is by no means obvious. The
> >information being gathered is not secret, nor is the information
> >being gathered (generally speaking) using inherently illegal (or
> >immoral) techniques. The real world analogs to these activities
> >(where they exist) also do not seem to have any inherent
> >illegalities. It seems to me that we have no inherent right to
> >control the information gathered by any other person/organization.
>
> Just so.
Privacy laws are a poor protection of *our* privacy but they create the
precedent if not the legal frameowork for the state to review, inspect,
and monitor what we are doing with our data. The state requires
universal access to guarantee our privacy.
Tim the Lessor
