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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (26236)	3/23/1999 11:39:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) of 42771

Digital Me --- taking the nest step The planned release of this product is the Fall of 1999. I've been thinking how Novell could release this product with the greatest amount of favorable comment --- call it product "trust" as the privacy advocate in Washington did. As you know there has been a lively debate about not only privacy on the net but intrusion into family life of destructive social values. I receive routinely 30 spams a day, a good 20% of them are pornography come-ons and another 20% illegal get rich quick schemes. I recently gave a computer to one of my friends for his daughters nine year old. Guess what? I didn't put a web browser on or a connection to the internet. I didn't want the child exposed to the internet without the parent being the one to install the software. What does this have to do with Digital Me? Well I envision an introduction of Digital Me called Digital Me for children. The emphasis would be on giving children control over their digital identity on the net. Empowering them and taking away their status as potential victims of technology. Can we do it? Novell already has the contacts with a vast number of school systems. I think they should find some university proponent and some educators and this Summer develop a program called Digital Me for children in which children are taught how to control their digital identity over the internet, what pitfalls to avoid, what gets sent out when you do what --- the whole browser experience. This would be a basic curriculum in internet browsing taught using Digital Me. Something which parents could start off with in introducing heir children to the net. If Digital Me can be used to protect children from unwanted information, if it can teach them the importance of information in the information age, then Novell will have performed a great public service. I also think Digital Me for children would get a great deal of support from both privacy advocate, parents, public officials and educators. It is certainly something that needs to be carefully developed and thought out --- what better company to do it! ============= I'd love to debate the issue of the socially responsible use of technology with that Washington lawyer --- David Sobel. Being an old advocate of the use of appropriate technology and having litigated technology issues in the Courts, I think we can really show these guys what a responsible company like Novell can make technology do! Anybody at Novell interested?

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