IP: Liberty and safety in conflict

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Liberty and safety in conflict
> Tuesday 04 September, 2001
> By NATHAN COCHRANE
>
> http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2001/09/04/FFXNO24V0RC.html
>
> Between them, the views of engineer Dave Farber and columnist Dan
> Gillmor reach into the homes, coding dens and boardrooms of the people
> who build the technology that surrounds us.
>
> The trends they see fill them with deep disquiet, tinged with some hope
> of a better future. And by some cosmic coincidence, they were brought
> together last week, holidaying at adjacent hotels just up the road from
> the Opera House in Sydney.
>
> "The enabling of retro-active ethics generated by these enormous files
> of information are just dangerous, dangerous to a free society," Farber
> says of the accumulation of private details in huge databases. "Because
> some day you could run into a person who knew how to use them: a
> government, a demagogue."

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