IP: Gates on Technology and Privacy

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:07:07 +0100
To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian Randell)
Subject: Gates on Technology and Privacy


Dave:


The Bill Gates' article "Privacy: Who should know what about whom?" in
yesterday's Guardian newspaper here (which I gather is syndicated by the
New York Times so presumably has already appeared there and goodness knows
where else), contains the statement:


"Technology can overcome this privacy problem: expect to see e-mail that,
at the option of the sender, cannot be forwarded or printed on paper."


I'm no security expert, but I was surprised by this claim. Can someone
enlighten please as to its likely validity.


Cheers


Brian






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