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From: "Marcel Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > where privacy is a bigger concern, to me, is in how corporations
collect,
> > use (and misuse) personal information...
>
> And you know I haven't sold that email to a corporation because...?
>
> > I agree that it would be stupid to own someone elses mind.. that's not
the
> > point
>
> But that's what you're saying. You want to own whatever information about
> YOU is in MY mind (or computer, or paper, ...).
>
> > there really is no "mind" in this case.. there is a corporate database
of
> > names and addresses, and if my name or address is in there, I should be
> > able to go in and modify it or set permissions on how it is used..
>
> How is that different from someone's mind? What makes it wrong to own
> someone else's mind, but right to own someone else's database?
>
> > There actually is scarcity, and a LOT of it. How do you explain
e-commerce
> > Web sites paying upwards of $300 per name to acquire new customers?
>
> Value. They think they can gain more than $300 from that information.
>
> > If a
> > company is paying $300 to acquire MY name into their database, I frickin
> > want a cut of it!!
>
> Yeah, me too. The fact that we want it doesn't mean that we have the right
> to it.
>
> > It's MY name and MY address.. this economy is worth over
> > $600 billion annually in the US alone..
>
> It's a series of letter and digits that happen to relate to your name and
> address. The name was / is / will be definitely used by someone else. The
> address might have been / might be used by someone else. What exactly
makes
> that series of letters and digits YOUR property?
>
> > Corporations have a need to cross-sell and up-sell products. they have a
> > need to broaden customer acquisition.. the information they need to
> accomplish
> > these goals is VERY VERY scarce.. that's why you create a property
regime
> > around personal information --
>
> I don't see how *public* information can be scarce. They can duplicate it
a
> million times. That's not scarce in my book.
>
> Mark
