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IP: Gilmore's Privacy column
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 03:55:52 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor () sjmercury com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:58:44 -0700 To: <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Privacy column FYI, Dave: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3105957.htm If you build a house, you design the plumbing system to include hot water. If you have to add in the hot-water system later, you'll pay much more and you'll disrupt your family's life during the follow-up construction. That same logic should apply to privacy and other public values in the digital age. It doesn't apply very often, sorry to say. Why? Because the businesses building the next generation of digital services are indifferent, if not hostile, to everything but their immediate bottom lines. Governments' agendas, meanwhile, frequently run counter to abstract public wishes that conflict with business demands. ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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