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From: randolph@cognito.Eng.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
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Subject: Re: The end of privacy... and so what comes next?
Summary: "Privacy-protecting police state" is an oxymoron
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Date: 2 Apr 91 07:53:04 GMT
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Brad, no police state is ever likely to want to protect privacy;
police states depend on the invasion of privacy and have since their
very beginning.  This of course is the reasoning underlying the
"search and seizure" (fourth?) amendment of the Bill of Rights.

The protection of privacy -- however implemented -- is a considerable
defense against several kinds of tyranny: that of the police state,
that of the wealthy, and that of the majority.

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