Big Business Becoming Big Brother

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
Date: August 9, 2004 6:27:04 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Big Business Becoming Big Brother

On 09 Aug 2004, at 14:36, David Farber wrote:
> From: Randy Burge <burge () proactive to>
> Date: August 9, 2004 8:18:51 AM PDT
>
> <http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,64492,00.html>
>
> Big Business Becoming Big Brother 
>
> ...Corporations freely share information with
> government agencies because [...] they fear increased government
> scrutiny of their business practices if they don't share...

They don't have to be big business.  My pharmacist told me bluntly 
that, his privacy policy notwithstanding, he'd open his prescription 
records to the cops any time they asked, because "if someone tries to 
break in here I want them to show up when I call."

And _despite_ that it's safer to use him than the ssn-demanding 
mega-chains in the same block.

I just have my doctor give a different name every time he calls in a 
prescription.  I think that as long as she doesn't prescribe a 
painkiller she's probably not going to break any law that way.

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