From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 95 04:42:56 PDT
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: EU Data Protection
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On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:

> Think about it: the name "data privacy" sounds good, at first blush, but
> what it really means is that my records are not private, that my records
> are inspectable by government agents to see if I have stored any illegal
> facts or correlations.
> 

In addition to registering records and making all records "public 
records" in some sense, data potection acts also require the registration 
of *computers.*

DCF

"Register commies not computers."