first look on www.bayarea.com for the most recent by local (San
Jose) technology columnist Dan Gillmor. He talks about how liberty (as he
defines it) is being undermined in the UK by things like public
surveillance cameras (having read The Transparent Society, I can't say I
am agains this) andthe RIP law (which I think does go too far.) I think he
believes it is a slippery slopee and that the British are selling their
freedom for what Gillmor says is temporary security. So are people in the
UK selling themselves into a kind of serfdom? From the US perspective (if
Gillmor speaks for most Americans, and I think he does) this is so. Do we
have ANYONE from the UK on this list anymore? I think people in both
countries should read his column.
Kristin
