RE: Completely related to everything important

["Jason McMunn" <mcmunn@mmdt.com>]

Personally, I archive the entire list, and divide it up into folders based
on who it was sent too.. It's then cross indexed with short cuts based on
the topic of discussion, and also by the date.

no, really.. i mean it. :) honest.. :)
jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Hoffmann [mailto:escape@alt-escape.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:02 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Completely related to everything important
>
>
> This issue is, of course, much greater than a single
> low-resolution camera
> pointing at a less-than bustling intersection in Moscow.  Our
> lives and
> personal data are increasingly collected, collated, analyzed,
> and munged by
> those with the wherewithal to do so.
>
> Frequent contributors to Vision 2020 are already leaving a
> significant
> public diary in the v2020 archives.  Certainly an
> enterprising individual
> could find other references online to Bill London, Tim
> Hillebrand, Ken
> Medlin, Priscilla Salant, Bob Hoffmann, and others.  People
> with a little
> more money & savvy could go to credit agencies, banks, state
> & federal Web
> sites, private investigators, online profile aggregators
> (they know where'
> you've been surfing, and what you've bought online), etc., to
> paint one
> hell of a picture of us.  The capability of collecting and
> compiling this
> data is becoming more powerful and less expensive every day.
>
> Might I one day be denied a Chevron credit card (or charged a higher
> interest rate) because I've criticized Chevron in this forum?  Might
> someone defending homosexuals be denied health or life
> insurance, because
> they are considered at high risk of AIDS?  Could someone have
> their house
> raided by the police after posting a message supporting drug
> decriminalization?  Could conservatives and gun-owners be
> identified online
> and rounded up after the vast left-wing conspiracy declares
> martial law?
>
> Crazier things have happened.  I, for one, am glad that the
> camera on Main
> Street, and others like it, cannot identify me and allow my
> movements to be
> correlated with other available data.  But if this ever
> happens, be aware
> that it is only an incremental advance in the loss of privacy
> in our culture.
>
> Let the buyer, poster, surfer, driver, hunter, and taxpayer beware.
>
> Bob Hoffmann
> 229 East C St., Suite B
> Moscow, ID  83843  USA
> Phone: (208) 883-0642
> Fax: 1-800-683-3799
>