Re: U.S. Plans Massive Data Sweep

[Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 2/11/06, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> From:                   Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
> > http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=20323

> There is an excellent book by David Brin, "The Transparent Society," that deals
> with exactly this sort of issue.  Basically, he takes Larry Ellison's "You have no
> privacy.  Get over it" quote and kind of looks at it sideways: OK, we have no
> privacy--how can we make this work for us?  His basic thesis is that if we have no
> privacy, do you want only the police/government to be able to spy on you, or do
> you want to know about them, too?  His optimum position is "reciprocal
> transparency": if you want to know about me, then you have to make yourself
> accessible to me, as well.


Excellent book report! Not sure if I understand it tho.

Let me play devils advocate for a sec:
On some/future/date, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> could write:
So you want to give the Terrorists the -plans to the white house
security system, and let Them know when and where the president is
going to be at all times as well as disclose the positions of our
nukes to the Commies?
/devils_advocate


So is the book saying that total transparency is the way to go,.. or
just that the information  collected by one group needs to also
include themselves in the roster that should then be made publicly
available?

I should probably just buy the book, but this is more fun ;-)

-JP

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