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   Whass up!

   

   Ryan, Oct 20th, 2000 @ 11:29am

   
   

   My main concern when I go shopping online is security. I don't really care if a company starts to learn my buying habits, the only people that seem to want to be totally anonymous are the lunatic fringe that think people will hunt them down, stalk them, spam them and abuse their privacy all the time. Not likely!

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   Re: Whass up!

   

   mhh5, Oct 20th, 2000 @ 2:34pm

   
   

   Actually, I'm one of those lunatic finge people.
   Why don't you think it's likely that abuses of privacy will happen? What's to stop it? Do you believe in privacy-by-obsurity? ie. No one in their right mind would ever want to keep track of X billion transactions, so no one has to worry? I disagree. Check out one of my previous posts on privacy. If you let people collect databases, they will use them. And you have no idea what for. Now if there were a way to flood the database with garbage info that would make the database useless, then I guess there wouldn't be a problem.
   
   But anyway, I'm not really concerned that companies know what I'm buying, as much as I think privacy is a fundamental freedom issue. I sort of think invasion of privacy is a restriction of freedom. Now I guess you can argue if I'm not doing anything wrong, then I shouldn't have anything to worry about, but I tend to think that keeping a log of all of my activity online is in itself wrong. Call me a lunatic fringe person....

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   Re: Whass up!

   

   Mike (profile), Oct 20th, 2000 @ 3:13pm

   
   

   Yeah. What he said! :)
   
   Put me in the "lunatic fringe" also. If you want to be scared about all this stuff read Database Nation. Yeah, it goes a little overboard at times, but the potential for abuse is pretty scary.

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