Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: The end of privacy... and so what comes next?
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 05:23:29 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr03.052329.17568@looking.on.ca>
References: <1991Apr02.054249.27643@looking.on.ca> <10853@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Apr02.192225.8159@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr3.010331.9880@milton.u.washington.edu>

As to how you'll be compensated if the information about you is wrong,
the answer is that you'll sue for defamation.  It is already a tort
to publish incorrect information about a person.

I would agree that we might make this particular tort a little easier to
sue over, with perhaps a "small claims" type court, where all you have to
do is show that the false information is present and available for basic
fines and damages, and you have to show more and have a real lawsuit for
additional damages.

As to how you will find the wrong information?  Are you suggesting that
we have database police do this for me?  Or simply that we have a right to
examine information about ourselves either free or at a reasonable cost.

I would be glad to see the latter, but not the former.

And as to whether I have been subject to this sort of "info-rape?"
Well, the fact that you call it that makes me wonder if you have ever been
subject to actual rape.

-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473