Simson is a smart fellow, and a friend. But he does believe in aggressive
federal regulation of private sector data collection practices. I fear (and
I should write this if I ever get around to reviewing his book) that he
focuses too much on that area, and not enough on governmental intrusions
into privacy.
-Declan
At 20:58 4/12/2000 -0400, dmolnar wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > And now much of the focus is on corporate misbehavior, such as
> Doubleclick.
> > At last week's CFP conference, everyone was nattering about how Big
> Brother
> > is the corporation, or employer, or credit bureau, something that
>
>FWIW, this is also seen in Simson Garfinkle's recent book "Database
>Nation." I'm not sure if it is "the" most cogent or "best" expression of
>this viewpoint, but it seems to argue for the point of view you mention.
>Garfinkle is at MIT tomorrow as part of the authors@MIT series, in case
>anyone is interested and in the area.
>
>Thanks,
>-David
