[107865] in Cypherpunks
RE: Sun and Privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jei@zor.hut.fi)
Tue Jan 26 19:14:26 1999
From: jei@zor.hut.fi
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 02:00:36 +0200 (EET)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
cc: schneier@counterpane.com
In-Reply-To: <000a01be497d$439f3700$320a0a01@fulgham>
Reply-To: jei@zor.hut.fi
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> > "Get over it."
> >
> >
> > The full story is at:
> > http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17538.html
> >
> >
> > Wow.
> >
> > Bruce
>
> All the more troubling since Sun is a member of the Online Privacy Alliance.
>
> With a great quote like McNealy's, how can I dare question that "an industry
> coalition that seeks to head off government regulation of online consumer
> privacy in favor of an industry self-regulation approach" has my best
> interests at heart?
>
> -Brent
Looks to me like the whole US industry is so accustomed to selling
information about consumers that there is no way they are going to
stop. Publicly they will say otherwise, but the information will still
be for sale or trade or accessible. The promises and deals to respect
privacy will be just so much smoke and mirrors to fool the trusting
consumer.
Sun is going to be sitting on a virtual _gold-mine_ of consumer
information with their technologies. Why do you think they want
to have even the toasters connected to the networks?
++ J
