From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 02:46:38 +0800
To: "Richard Martin" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Smart cards "a giant leap backwards" - Canadian Privacy Commissioner
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At 02:23 PM 7/30/96 -0400, Richard Martin wrote:
>Very little that might be new or enlightening to the world; attendees
>of CFP '96 will remember [fuzzily, in my case] the closest thing to
>Bruce's counterpart in the states admitting that the USA doesn't actually
>have much of a counterpart to the privacy commissioner.

Most Central European countries have both privacy commissioners and legal
requirements that everyone register their addresses with the police.  I'll
do without the former if I can also avoid the latter.

DCF