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Re: Mail to all drivers in Oregon?
In article <[email protected]>,
Jim Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>L. Todd Masco:
>>"we have
>> this information on you. So could anybody with $125. Call your congress
>> critter and complain."
>I love the first part of this idea, and hate the second part.
...
>But just what are we supposed to tell our Congressmen
>to do?
Fair enough. ^Call your congress critter and complain^Support anonymous
transactions with digital cash from (company_name). I agree with
the anonymous poster who said that such a move should be put off
until we have a real solution. So, whatever company wants to kick
this off could use this to generate political protection.
To put my comment in the right context, I was worried (when thinking
about this) about anonymous digital cash being made illegal. The
intent would be to kill opposition to anonymous digital cash.
Eric mentioned in his talk at the SEA that companies exist that sell
mailing lists of people of a particular ethnicity based upon spending
patterns: the example he gave was a company marketing to jewish people
bought a list of "believed jews" for the purpose of marketing (and Eric
mentioned the irony).
Another variation of my suggestion would be to get such lists and
to mail to people a statement saying "You are registered as an
(ethnicity) in mailing lists." Even a 50% hit rate would drive
the issue home to people with enormous efficiency.
The intent isn't to get the government to Do Something, but to make
people en mass aware that privacy is a real issue that affects them.
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L. Todd Masco | "Large prime numbers imply arrest." - Previously meaningless
[email protected] | grammatically correct sentence. Now...