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1995-09-07 - Re: Collection of personal info

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
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Reply To: <199509062144.RAA05718@cushing.bwh.harvard.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-07 09:49:55 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 7 Sep 95 02:49:55 PDT

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 95 02:49:55 PDT
To: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: Collection of personal info
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On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Adam Shostack wrote:

> 	No.  But the interesting question is, what to do about it?
> The answer in part, is personal anonymity through cash and avoiding US
> IDs.  But in the long run, thats broken.  You can't have privacy for
> 1000 people; they'll just toss us all in jail.

I doubt if TRW will throw you in jail for avoiding their database.  Last 
time I looked, it wasn't (very) illegal to avoid US IDs.

DCF

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