Yes, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote about that sort of thing in 'The First
Circle'
Mark Denil
Halifax, Nova Scotia
At 05:26 PM 08/23/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>My opinions, and not those of my employer, follow.
>
>I'm totally in agreement with Mr. Thoen. And I bristle at the
>"driving-as-privilege" rationalization. Of course, when one remembers that
>this is the United States of Advertising, as I noticed someone calling
>themselves on a utility-download page, such thinking is, sadly, par for the
>course.
>
>Tell the person who cannot afford to live convenient to work, in a place
>where public transit doesn't exist, that (s)he must surrender an inordinate
>amount of privacy without his/her knowledge or consent just to put food on
>the table: to eat, they must work; to work, they must drive; to drive, they
>must bend over and take it crudely from marketers. While I'm not in those
>straits myself, I have been, and some people I know personally are right
>now. Besides, even if driving were a "privilege," why should it follow that
>anyone with enough cash has the *RIGHT* to purchase the demographic details
>of individuals? Shouldn't that information be "privileged?"
>
>Of course, as GIScientists, we can just bury our heads in the sand and
>geocode/analyze numbly in pursuit of payday, oblivious to the erosion of
>privacy to which we're contributing as we piss into our branch of the
>Datastream. "Well, I'm just-a DOIN' muh JOB, sir!"
>
>If I could write that in Deutsch for effect, I would. Mr. Thoen's comments,
>alas, give me some hope.
>
> ---
>
>B. Keathe Wright
>GIS Analyst
>AT&T Wireless Services
>Redmond, WA USA
>edress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 2:50 PM
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>> Subject: Re: MI License plates & addresses
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>> The base of this argument is that driving is not a right but rather a
>> privilege therefor the individual is not protected under privacy rights
>> issues.
>>
>> Why would we want to do this? I can think of a million reasons but the
>> best
>> fit for socially conscious GIS folks would be the predictive capability in
>>
>> traffic load modeling for transportation management.
>>
>> Myself, I would be looking for purchasing behavior but, then again, that's
>> me.
>>
>> John Ketcham
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