more on EC Data Privacy....

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:52:43 -0800
To: <dave () farber net>
Cc: Mike O'Dell <mo () ccr org>
Subject: Re: [IP] EC Data Privacy....

At 4:40 PM -0500 2/26/05, David Farber wrote:
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> From: Mike O'Dell <mo () ccr org>
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:48:43 -0500 (EST)
> To: <dave () farber net>
> Subject: EC Data Privacy....
>
>
> remember Back When, well over a decade ago, when the EC adopted
> stringent controls on the retention of personal data and on
> what could be done with it?
>
> remember how US interests, including the US Governement, had
> screaming fits about how these regulations were pointless and
> unnecessary and would be a horrible burden, not to mention
> provoke male pattern baldness?
>
> and now we have the same contingent of miscreants trying to
> mollify the victims by trying to convince them it's somwhow
> *their* problem that personal data about them has been grossly
> misused for someone else's profit.
>
> chalk-up one big point for those clever Europeans.
> nothing like having the foresight to get in front of a problem
> rather than waiting for it to become a sucking chest wound.
>
> harumph

 How soon we forget...Google "Willis Ware"+privacy+RAND

 an example from 
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47-68_STO53132,00.html

    ...

The debate over access to personal information disclosed in
commercial settings has roused passions for years. As far back as the
early 1970s, for example, the federal government initiated several
task forces with the purpose of collecting and analyzing the state of
privacy in the U.S.

Willis Ware of RAND, a research institute in Santa Monica, Calif.,
was the chairman of the committee that studied privacy issues at the
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Recently, Ware said
he has "often pondered the idea that a federal-level commission of
outside experts is needed to study the state of affairs as it relates
to electronic privacy."

This commission would bring together information and anecdotes about
the issue, including reports about the potential damage that
invasions of privacy can do to Internet users, Ware said. His view is
that the panel's work would help us understand the extent of the
problems that could be caused by online privacy threats, such as
identity theft.

"Self-regulation seems to be what everyone is talking about in
Washington," Ware said. "But I don't know what the [consequence] is
for not adhering to a specific set of rules that safeguards people's
privacy."

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 Now we know ...


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