NP A little Privacy Rant (long)

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, davemarc wrote:

> Have I missed something here?  Issues of Internet privacy do not begin and
> end with the cookie business.  Probably the biggest issues have to do with
> the fact that internet "security" is a sham.  Information of the kind that
> used to be locked in guarded vaults is being transferred into gee-whiz
> formats that can be accessed from any phone in the world.  Furthermore,
> email and other forms of Internet message-sending undermine the
> breakthrough in communications represented by the primitive sealable
> envelope.

I quite agree and hope my sometimes flippant remarks about privacy haven't
indicated too much otherwise. It's just the privacy concerns related to
market research and targetting type things that I feel to be a bit
trivial.