Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:01:12 07/01/00
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On July 01, 2000 at 08:01:36, Michael Cummings wrote: >On June 30, 2000 at 21:38:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On June 30, 2000 at 05:36:22, Michael Cummings wrote: >> >>>On June 29, 2000 at 23:13:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>> >>>>In another 5 years there won't be any 'anonymous internet users'. The public >>>>simply won't stand for it much longer. >>> >>>I do not agree with this. Privacy laws in Australia are at least looking at >>>defending our rights not to be known all over the place. >>> >>>We have a huge problem at the moment with big companies taking over medical >>>practices and then saying they have the right too send our medical record to >>>places that can then use that information to sell us stuff. Well we are knocking >>>that on the head. >>> >>>The public will stand for privacy for a very long time to come, or simply they >>>will not join nor use it. >> >> >>"privacy" and "anonymous" are _not_ the same thing. Not by a long shot. > >In computer terms, I think it is pretty much the same thing. If you are not >anonymous, then your details are not private. If you want your details to remain >private you either do not give them, or do things in a way in which you remain >anonymous, thus your details remain private. > >So in regard to the internet and many other things, they are connected Connected, but not the same thing. Privacy law in the US dictates what can and can not be released about private individuals. But the "identity" of someone is not part of the data that is protected. The type of privacy that some seem to want is the ability to put on a completely new face, and be able to go out in public and do anything they want, from robbing a bank to shooting someone. Then by removing that phony face, they have no fear of facing the consequences of their actions. I don't call that privacy. I call it lunacy.
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