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To: Jeff Fox who wrote (74027)	2/19/1999 7:57:00 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Jeff, re: NY Times article on PSN Thanks for the link. As we suspected, this is beginning to snowball. I see a number of similarities to the Drivers License database issue. The ACLU is now involved in that one. And in today's Washington Post I see that a number of lawmakers that supported funding of Image Data are trying to distance themselves from that issue claiming, "they did not understand how the company's operation would work." ;-) And now the Intel boycott is investigating if there is any government involvement in the PSN initiative. "Sobel said the identifying technology in the Pentium III " seemed to be along the lines as some of those types of suggestions that have previously come from the FBI." Some other interesting excerpts from the NYT: "The organizers are considering extending the boycott to major PC manufacturers who ship Pentium III systems in a configuration that would significantly damage consumer privacy," the draft letter states. "We request your assistance in providing us with information on your company's intentions, so that we can determine our organization's boycott policy regarding your company and any individual consumer products" that contain such a processor serial number.........." "Intel told us that the origin of this concept was that the PC manufacturers were asking for this capability because they were being asked for it by their customers. We tried to explore that with them,"......... It's too bad, since I think PIII's success depends a lot on marketing. This controversy must be driving the marketing guys crazy.

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