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To: Burt Masnick who wrote (72021)1/25/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: rustr  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
<<''You still have the problem of an ID number, and Web sites can force people to disclose that ID number as a condition to get
into the sites,'' complained David Banisar of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center. >>

This kind of thinking kills me...who is going to "force" someone to go to the website. Don't go. If people do not want to turn on the feature for electronic commerce, etc. Then the businesses on the web who require this will dry up from lack of customers. The system fixes itself.

There is another side to this privacy issue that has not even been mentioned. That is "spoofing." Now, with my CPU ID number, no one can pretend they are me. Unsavory characters on the web cannot pretend they are me with a little info to get more important info (like credit card numbers).

I wish these groups "protecting" my privacy would go after the government. I drive around a car with a "unique identifier." That doesn't seem to bother them. Also, true story, I just got a speeding ticket. Now my mailbox is filled with advertisements from traffic schools (including the comedy one) and lawyers. Can anyone easily find out this info without my consent? (including my girlfriends father....uh oh...)

just my $.02

rustr
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