NP A little Privacy Rant (long)

[jbor]

> Cookies were never intended to be used to snoop out information about 
> users.  This is entirely thanks to marketers.  It's a wonderful technology
> that has been exploited to no end by those who desire information.

Sort of like a social security number, no? It's actually the feds and
employers who are using all this cyber-tracking technology to catch out Joe
and Mary Citizen anyway (who's slacking off or downloading porn on company
time, who's sending e-mails with the word "bomb" in them), and which is
bringing the whole e-privacy thing to a head.

>
> And another thing, marketers just don't understand it's not what kind of
> information is being gathered that makes people uncomfortable.  It's that
> anything is being gathered at all without our knowledge.

The government and the CIA of course being totally beyond reproach in this
respect.

Looking out for those black helicopters.

best


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>From: Spencer Thiel <spen at fictiondepartment.com>
>To: "'pynchon-l at waste.org'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: NP A little Privacy Rant (long)
>Date: Fri, Jul 7, 2000, 10:22 AM
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