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From: anselm@castle.ed.ac.uk (Anselm Lingnau)
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Subject: Re: What can ISDN be used for
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Date: 17 Sep 90 18:27:43 GMT
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Mike Rychener comments:

> I can imagine newspapers, entertainment (movies, concerts), magazines,
> video news, all customized to individual preferences, arriving on
> your terminal

I don't know whether that would be a good idea. Various Secret Services,
though, might like to be able to obtain listings of which people read which
`radical' publication... Also one could foresee `customized' junk `mail' to
an even larger extent than is normal these days. Yuck. The trouble about the
whole business is that while the technology seems to be just about ready, the
legislation (privacy, protection of personal data, ...) is not. Not in most
places in the world, not by a long shot.

Anselm Lingnau