Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!drgate!dranet.dra.com!sean From: sean@dranet.dra.com Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Message-ID: <1991Apr12.154502.262@dranet.dra.com> Date: 12 Apr 91 15:45:01 CDT References: <1991Apr9.043813.7430@tygra.UUCP> Distribution: inet Organization: Data Research Associates, St. Louis MO Lines: 24 In article , peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > jp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes: >> 2> A privacy amendment, setting out certain principles and >> rights in this area, including an order for congress to pass >> any neccessary laws to protect this level of privacy both >> from invasions by the govt. and by one person(s) against >> another person(s) [This includes corporations]. > > Downside: Exxon sues Greenpeace for keeping a dossier on oil spills. > > Etcetera. I think you can see the problems. Bingo, you've got it. It is tough to tell the good guys from the bad guys, and generally the bad guys will use such laws to keep the good guys from finding out. This has already been done in Europe. Newspapers have been sued for keeping information about (famous?) people in their computers. Their solution was to keep them in a paper file. In the US, you don't need a license to print a newspaper, or a newsrag. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO 63132-1806 Domain: sean@dranet.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100