[83031] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Recent Trend in "Collective Contracts"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Swire)
Fri Jul 11 12:21:53 1997
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:31:57 -0400 (EDT)
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Peter Swire <swire.1@osu.edu>
Reply-To: Peter Swire <swire.1@osu.edu>
At 10:05 PM 7/10/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>A thoughtful response from Peter Swire.
Thanks kindly.
>A third possibility, and one which deserves a longer essay by someone, is
>the role quasi-private organizations play. To cut to the chase,
>organizations like the American Bar Association, American Medical
>Association, etc.
>
>These "guilds" are an interesting case of self-policing where there is no
>option for opting out. (I don't believe it is possible to practice law or
>medicine without approval/licensing from these kinds of
>organizations/guilds.)
You might check out my article on "Markets, Self-Regulation, and
Government Enforcement in the Protection of Personal Information." Among
other topics, I talk about self-regulation by licensing organizations. The
piece is posted at my web site. It is also the lead chapter in a recent
report by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on
"Self-Regulation and Privacy in the Information Age", on their web site at
http://www.ntia.doc.gov.
Peter
Prof. Peter Swire
Ohio State University
College of Law
mailto:swire.1@osu.edu
web: http://www.osu.edu/units/law/swire.htm (in early stages of construction)
