Re: FC: Yet Another Survey: Americans have become privacy pragmatists

2000-12-12 Thread Duncan Frissell
Business President Alan Westin says that more Americans now fall into the category of "privacy pragmatist" rather than "privacy fundamentalist." Ron Plesser of Piper Marbury Rudnick Wolf says that the Internet industry must determine how to properly use Social Security numbers. "Regulating

Yet Another Survey: Americans have become privacy pragmatists

2000-12-11 Thread Declan McCullagh
[Originally sent to politech at politechbot.com. --DBM] --- [I believe Americans care a lot about privacy invasions _when they don't have a choice_ -- such as cops sniffing your house for illegal drugs with airborne drones or Thermovision 210s. But when Americans _get to choose_ whether to