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To: Neocon who wrote (59072)	8/23/1999 6:26:00 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I can't see how either side(or any side) could be trusted to dig (possibly at long distance) through any computer they wish...

To: Neocon who wrote (59072)	8/23/1999 9:04:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Haven't you been paying attention? In a few years everyone will be on line doing every conceivable kind of business. An increasing fraction of the nations' commerce will take place on line. I don't think the real danger here is to civil liberties directly. This is a new thought I'm just developing so let me take a crude first pass. If the government is allowed to sample the nation's commerce, on line in real time like this, might some not begin to think they finally have the tools to effectively implement a command and control economy? There are large numbers of people who were sad the Soviet Union experiment failed. How many think it could have succeeded except for a lack of sophisticated tools? Milton Friedman has written that he would prohibit the government from collecting any information about the economy. Once they have it they are tempted to use it to screw thing up. We're on the verge of allowing them to collect several orders of magnitude more data.