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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: The end of privacy... and so what comes next?
Message-ID: <671217954.20214@mindcraft.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 17:25:52 GMT
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In article <63565@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>Is the 'common man' better or worse off if the police can track every
>movement of every person?  Imagine that you could have "knocker ID"?
>How about being able to buy an 'intrusion monitor', and in the
>unfortunate event that your house was burglarized, you could just check
>the "presence logs" and read out the IDs of every person who set foot
>on your property.  Would you run to embrace it?

Would you believe it?  Sounds like another invitation to a
technological arms race.  For an illustration of some of the
potential problems, take a look at Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?"


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