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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc
Subject: Privacy and Trust
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Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 21:31:03 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 11 21:31:03 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 03:44:51 EST
Reply-To: Jean Egbert <egbert@paxrv-nes>
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This article is from Jean Egbert <egbert@paxrv-nes>
 and was received on  Sun Jan 11 14:55:55 1987
 
Regarding the question of why the general public seems so complacent about the 
massive amounts of private information which are stored on computers:  perhaps 
it's a case of trust in the indifference of strangers.  If I were in charge of 
one of those databases, I don't think I would be interested in poking around 
the private data of people I didn't know.  The errors that occurr from time to 
time are not made from malice, or a wish to exercise power over someone else's 
life, but from simple human mistakes, accidents.  I don't worry about the data 
on me in computer databases because I don't believe that the kind of people 
who like to rule others are the same kind who work with databases.

Jeanie Egbert