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Ethical programming guild? [/.]
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> X-within-URL: http://slashdot.org/features/98/12/04/1158251.shtml
> The following was written by Slashdot Reader James Moyer .
>
> In proposing this idea, I think that it would a little bit of
> background would be appropriate. I am a student at Ohio State, and I
> have a strong interest in civil liberties and privacy issues. In fact,
> I am now in the process of organizing an on-campus student
> organization to criticize Ohio State's overuse of the social security
> number, biometric identification and other related issues to privacy
> directly concerning the university.
>
> Here on Slashdot I use the nickname JimBobJoe posting from email
> address [email protected].
>
> I also consider myself a Libertarian, and from many of the postings on
> Slashdot, it appears that there are quite a lot of Libertarians out
> there too. There is no coincidence, in my mind, that some of the most
> stringent privacy laws in the nation hail from a highly technical,
> Libertarian state, being Washington state. In the same vein, it is
> rather amusing to see countries such as Malaysia attempt to draw
> computer professions into their country, where the severity of their
> laws turn many away.
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