Privacy

richard@auscoms.com.au
Tue, 07 Jul 98 09:17:57 +1000

Linkers: we've had two privacy threads in the last couple of days, which led me
to wonder if we shouldn't be trying to determine what is the starting point for
Internet privacy debates? What level of privacy should individuals expect?

To a certain extent, I suspect that privacy is something of an artefact of 20th
century life. To what extent were common lives private in a 17th century
village?

In that context, don't we need to first figure out what parts of privacy are
"rights" versus those that aren't? And what better place to do it than here?

Richard Chirgwin Auscom Publishing
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