Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 05:01:36 07/01/00
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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
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