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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: <1991Apr3.064816.13479@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 06:48:16 GMT
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I cannot vouch that the intensity of the experiences is the same; in fact,
actual physical rape is almost too horrible to contemplate and probably 
beyond the ken of most men.  However, "info-rape," like breaking and entering
in the physical world, can definitely leave one with the sensation of having
been intimately violated.

As to having information police:  let the person afflicted with false
information be his or her own police, by giving him or her the tools to
monitor the flow of information about him or her.  Government needn't (and
probably couldn't) do this job.  But putting the individual out there, to
duel without legal weapons with institutions who make their livelihoods
(and considerable profits) by trading in personal information, is really
merciless.

Bob Jacobson
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