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Re: Why privacy is important? Looking for essays/opinion pieces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Gerck)
Sun Apr 4 12:35:52 1999
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 16:10:38 -0800
From: Ed Gerck <egerck@mcg.org.br>
To: M Taylor <mctylr@privacy.nb.ca>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Taylor:
Please check http://www.mcg.org.br/faust.htm and
http://www.mcg.org.br/nrfc3.htm (this one to be updated on Monday, April 5th)
Cheers,
Ed Gerck
M Taylor wrote:
> I am looking for letters, essays, op-ed, or other writings which explain
> why privacy is important on the Internet. Most resources seem to simply
> assume that privacy is important, without asking or explaining why.
>
> In my limited experience of dealing with administrators, they question why
> they should worry about privacy of other people's personal information,
> citing the general rise in data warehousing and the old saying "if you've
> got nothing to hide..."
>
> So I'm looking for pieces which examine why we should consider our privacy
> valuable.
