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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (30360)2/16/2000 2:41:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
The assumption here doesn't work

Once you give somebody your social security number, you have given them your social security number. It doesn't matter what happens after that, the information is out there.

Similarly with any other information.

Therefore any systems of voluntary based disclosure will not work. The problem isn't how we share information, it is how we protect our digital identities from abuse.

If I go to Expedia.com today, guess what, it knows me by name and greets me by name!. Moreover everytime I do anything on the NET my info is being grabbed. Just watch those cookies from doubleclick.com. They recently had to make mea culpa privacy declarations for following you all over the net! and getting sued for it. Theree cheers for the people suing them.

I think any of these schemes that seem to imply you will be in charge of disclosing your information are total fantasy. Moreover we don't want some kind of free market system of my daughter for your stock picks exchange of info, we want important information protected from abuse. We want a digital identity that cannot be compromised and that sits in a digital identity vault. You don't exchange it.

It should not be necessary to give people all the info being currently requested in order to make a commercial transaction on the internet. Failure to protect this info soon will result in Congress passing legislation. I can assure you this is going to happen after just one attack on the financial system of this country by the hackers.
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