IP: Liberty and safety in conflict

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Liberty and safety in conflict
>Tuesday 04 September, 2001
>By NATHAN COCHRANE
>
>http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2001/09/04/FFXNO24V0RC.html
>
>Between them, the views of engineer Dave Farber and columnist Dan
>Gillmor reach into the homes, coding dens and boardrooms of the people
>who build the technology that surrounds us.
>
>The trends they see fill them with deep disquiet, tinged with some hope
>of a better future. And by some cosmic coincidence, they were brought
>together last week, holidaying at adjacent hotels just up the road from
>the Opera House in Sydney.
>
>"The enabling of retro-active ethics generated by these enormous files
>of information are just dangerous, dangerous to a free society," Farber
>says of the accumulation of private details in huge databases. "Because
>some day you could run into a person who knew how to use them: a
>government, a demagogue."

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