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To: Joseph G. who wrote (24314)	8/16/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Joseph, your information on how to not be tracked on the web is useful. I have a deeper disdain for the whole process. Its much the same as finding one's vehicle's course of travel over a year being recorded without permission, or finding one's path and interests being tracked at resturants or wherever and whenever you shop. Being able to selectively turn off that option isn't enough... one should be asked each and every time one enters a site if they want their habits recorded and analyzed. The presumption should not be that we are followed.. its no one's business but our own until we knowingly volunteer to give up that freedom. The question comes down to an argument similar to the right of free travel. Is the net a public landscape where we have common rights or is it only private property. The right to travel over physical landscape was recognized long ago as a primary and necessary freedom. As the intellectual and content landscapes of the internet geometrically increase its imperative that free travel be a basic and necessary freedom also. There is the right of private places to govern and monitor traffic, but it has to be with consent first and every time with full disclosure to its use, storage, selling and depth.