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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: The end of privacy... and so what comes next?
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.075417.8565@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 07:54:17 GMT
References: <63473@bbn.BBN.COM> <1991Apr01.052655.3549@looking.on.ca> <4082.27f77d68@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
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In article <4082.27f77d68@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>In article <1991Apr01.052655.3549@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>> Here's an interesting idea...
>> [talk about formalized aliasing]
>> This all assumes a smart-card carrying society, and a computer based
>> transaction system with a terminal in every home.  We'll get that.
>
>But the smart-cards are being designed by people who don't share
>your concern about other people's privacy.  The smart-card systems 
>already in place reduce privacy.  They don't enhance it.
>
>dan herrick 
>herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com


This is so.  Any serious proposal to encrypt data as some sort of ultimate
privacy protection must also include a description of the means by which
law enforcement agencies, private detectives, banks, telemarketers, finance
and credit companies, health suppliers, and on and on of institutions who
detest OTHERS' privacy are going to be persuaded to come over to the
encryption solution.  Conspicuously, these proposals never do.

Bob Jacobson
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