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  From: Jonah Bossewitch <jb2410@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:04:44 -0400

Re: live free or die, or the right to anonymity while driving with respect to people looking at your car from the front

In a world of ubiquitous computing, computer privacy is synonymous with
privacy.
As we have argued this semester, privacy is tantamount to personal freedom.
I'll concede that freedom is one of my pet issues (but not in the sense that
GW (ab)uses it)

Perhaps my interest in Technology helps me to perceive these issues taking
shape before luddites,
but I don't understand how that weakens the strength of my arguments.

If I rewrote the above as a Limerick or Haiku, would it be more convincing?

PS - Do you really see a distinction between access control and monetary
issues?

Weird.

/jsb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Camden Hutchison" <crh2014@columbia.edu>
To: <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: live free or die, or the right to anonymity while driving with
respect to people looking at your car from the front


>
> "Even with regards to pdfs - Are you so wealthy that the
> prospect of being charged for every piece of information you
> ever consume doesn't affect you in any way? If you are, does it
> bother you that folks you don't share the same economic fortunes
> as most lawyers are losing their ability to access information
> which used to be free? Or what about the fact that this kind of
> technology enables the content provider to 'turn off'
> your access to the document at any point in time?"
>
> How did this become a money issue?  According to the article that
> you posted, the Remote Approach service is supposed to monitor
> access, not charge for access.  Moreover, I can't remember the last
> time that I read a .pdf where the author would desire to charge me
> for reading it.
>
> "Have you ever hesitated to sign a petition you actually believed
> in, out of fear it might affect your future in some way?"
>
> no
>
> "You might not feel as if you are being affected, and you really
> might not care, but you certainly are. And if you are not a
> heavy computer user today, do you think you will be in ten
> years?  A decade from now, when ubiquitous computing is
> pervasive, everyone will be heavy computer users...."
>
> I realize that computer privacy is important and that it affects me,
> it's just not one of my personal pet issues.  Is it really
> impossible that part of the reason that you are more interested in
> computer privacy than me is that you are more interested than me in
> computer technology generally?
>
> "What if, upon the completion of ever exchange of information,
> both parties received am open and clear 'receipt' of
> which information was exchanged?"
>
> As is the case with money transactions, this would require demand on
> the part of consumers.
>
> -Camden
>
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