Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:2518 comp.society.futures:2510 alt.cyberspace:266 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!ditsydh.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU!reynolds From: reynolds@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Chris.Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.society.futures,alt.cyberspace Subject: Re: Cyberia: An Off-the-Wall Fantasy Message-ID: <1991Jun4.015242.27466@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> Date: 4 Jun 91 01:52:42 GMT References: <42722@cup.portal.com> <1991Jun3.115854.8255@athena.mit.edu> Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia Lines: 29 In article <1991Jun3.115854.8255@athena.mit.edu> seaotter@athena.mit.edu (Mike) writes: >rburns@cup.portal.com (Randy J Burns) writes: >> >>I expect that at some date in the not so far future some small >>nation in the Pacific or Carribean will start to cater to the >>hacker community, say by offering tax breaks and and excellent >>communications system to lure such business. > >I imagine one might see some island of very privacy-conscious >types actually using a somewhat more primitive system setup, so >as to hinder electronic eavesdropping. Paranoid? Sure, but even >paranoids have enemies. UK data protection legislation was drawn up to ensure conformity with countries which forbid the exchange of personal data with countries which do not have adequate data protection laws. Thus if someone sets up a "Dirty Data" haven the legislation is already in place to make it illegal for UK and most if not all European Citizens to exchange data with such a country... Well that is the theory, but the law is in such a mess - especially with things like this network - where personal data flies round the world all the time - that it is difficult to know what could be done in practice ... Chris -- From Chris Reynolds (Currently visiting Australia from the UK) CSIRO (Div. of IT), PO Box 1599, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia email: reynolds@syd.dit.csiro.au phone: +61 2 887 9480 Janet: cf_reynolds@uk.ac.lut.hicom fax: +61 2 888 7787