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To: saukriver who wrote (42882)	5/23/2001 4:17:36 AM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

OT: GLB (?) Privacy saukriver: On one hand we can argue that the economic engine runs smoother when more information is available to all participants. But, when it comes to information that is specific to ourselves, we would rather argue to shut everyone else out. But we check BBB for bad apples. So is there some hint of NIMBY here ;-) We publish tons of census data and can zero in such small units as blocks for ethnic, family and economic grouping. One could easily use this to, say, dispatch a sales force to sell certain kinds of toasters in that block. Is this also an invasion of privacy ? Where can we draw a line ? From a 50,000' perspective, the information train has been rolling along pretty steadily, almost at the same pace as the computing power to process it has been. It's going to be rather hard to stop. BTW There is a rather amusing case study in the current HBR about a company where a laid off employee emailed everybody detailed payroll info on her way out. Like most Harvard case studies, it examines the issue from liberal, conservative and Machiavelian (sic?) angles. I do like my privacy, and I imagine so do most others. But, at what price ? For example, how many people subscribe to mail anonymizers ? In the end, if the breach is too wide, and the pain too acute, our elected government reps. will hear about it and will do 'something' about it. Perhaps over the next 20-30 years. In the meantime, expect businesses to give us lip service, and a busy tone, while the July 1 deadline passes by. Regards Dinesh ps: I did suggest you a method to benefit from it -- the 1-900 number. It's an original ::-)