IP: Gilmore's Privacy column

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor@sjmercury.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:58:44 -0700
To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Privacy column

FYI, Dave:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3105957.htm

If you build a house, you design the plumbing system to include hot water.
If you have to add in the hot-water system later, you'll pay much more and
you'll disrupt your family's life during the follow-up construction.

That same logic should apply to privacy and other public values in the
digital age. It doesn't apply very often, sorry to say.

Why? Because the businesses building the next generation of digital services
are indifferent, if not hostile, to everything but their immediate bottom
lines. Governments' agendas, meanwhile, frequently run counter to abstract
public wishes that conflict with business demands.



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