IP: Re: A Protective Path Paved in Granola

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:15:21 -0400
> Subject: Re: IP: A Protective Path Paved in Granola
> From: Cequs Inc <peterb () cequs com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Steve Lohr brings up many of the issues that surfaced in the Senate Commerce
> meeting on Privacy last week.
>
> A short list of the issues might be:
>
> 1. The resources of the privacy marketplace are skewed asymmetrically
> against the citizen. This transfers an economic burden as the citizen (not
> consumer, citizen) is given a choice of being on the Internet on the terms
> of the purveyors, or no internet at all. Any horse you want, but pick the
> one by the door.
>
> 2. The citizen is mesmerized by the sheer pace of technological change, and
> is caught in a loop of ever decreasing privacy.
>
> 3. People do not always have adequate threat analyses and risk matrices at
> hand in regards to their digital identities. The problem space is one
> citizen, and loads of information privacy policies. As such, the privacy
> policies are rarely read.
>
> -pb
>
> Peter Bachman



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