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To: EPS who wrote (26307)	3/27/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: EPS	Read Replies (1) of 42771

Security and Privacy issues are central for e-commerce to flourish into the major economic force we all think it can be (be all that you can be..). Novell's Digitalme technology could be just the right tool at the right time. It is not admissible for marketing companies to be able to study your every move/preference/habits/income/etc and sell this info to other companies in exchange for you being able to visit/buy/? through their sites. All this while people are not aware or prefer to ignore what is going on. Soon it could be your medical records. Through your social security it could be.. Microsoft general identifier is one more example on how this information is being extracted without the user being aware at all. (In MSFTs case this is one more instance of abuse of their monopoly power over OS and I hope it gets the attention of the DOJ). Another area of concern is e-mail. Granted that a message through the internet is really public, but the data is stored in data banks maybe for ever: ask Bill Gates...It means that any message that you wrote is stored somewhere. Lets follow through with the legal implications of all this. Say that tomorrow an order to investigate the records of a certain Mr Bill C. who, say, as an executive of the WH has been accused of....All his e-mail accounts and data banks can be searched in order to find out if he was writing and if he did what he was saying about/to..Monica...to her and all his friends and associates who in turn.. Now this could be rather costly/disruptive to a lot of organizations. If it happens often it could bankrupt your little local hot mail shop. Since the information is there it could be hard to argue legally that someone does not have the right to look into it. In fact we have just agreed that it is not protected since it is assumed to be public. So here we have in fact major problems with something so basic as e-mail. The law is way behind the curve here. I think it is obvious that it is on the best interest of all concerned that individuals should have control on the data about them that is stored (if any at all). That this information should not be part of e-commerce (a good deal of what we now call e-commerce is unfortunately related to buying and selling data banks about us!!!. Novell has the tools to change the Internet to next big phase which is its acceptance as an every day tool for communication and commerce. I think its acceptance could come at Internet Speed. ======================== On the browser discussion. I agree again with Fiondella. Put it like this Alomex: you can surf the net without images and sound using Lynx for example. it is a perfect tool just to do e-mail. It looks just like the good old screens of the seventies and eighties and I bet that very few people would use them for just doing e-mail. JMHO.

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