On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Privacy is many things, and Jim is pretty much on the wrong track on
> all of them. I haven't seen such babble since undergraduate crit-lit
> classes.

Demonstrate the errors...

> Privacy means different things to different people, societies, cultures.
> It is analytically different when we're talking about privacy from police
> surveillance, civil agency data collection, and contracts with corporations
> that may offer you incentives to disclose information. These concepts
> should be obvious to anyone who's spent more than a few weeks on cpunx.

Actually it doesn't. In every case you cite the 'reason' for 'privacy' is
to conceal or removal a concealing layer.


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