Simson Garfinkel gave an interesting talk at today's
SF Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting. He mostly talked about topics
other than his new book, "Database Nation" ISBN 1-56592-653-6,
but we did spend some time discussing privacy laws,
good and bad effects of correlating information, Brin,
relative non-usefulness of crypto for protecting privacy, etc.
On the way home, I stopped at Kepler's, and bought his book, and also
"The End Of Privacy", by Charles Sykes, ISBN 0-312-20350-0,
subtitled "Personal Rights in the Surveillance Society".
Sykes is the author of "Dumbing Down Our Kids", and is a journalist
who works for Hoover Institution and Wisconsin Policy Research Institute,
so I'd expect his biases to be well to the right of Simson's,
and difficult to compare with Brin's (:-)
At 12:14 AM 02/12/2000 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Anyone interested in this topic should read Peter Huber's book "Orwells
>>Revenge". Unfortunately, his site seems to have been dropped down the
>>memory hole. :)
>
>It's still available on Peter's web site located at:
>
>http://phuber.com/huber/orwell/orwells.html
Thanks!
Bill
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