[IP] EC Data Privacy....

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Mike O'Dell <mo@ccr.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:48:43 -0500 (EST)
To: <dave@farber.net>
Subject: EC Data Privacy....


remember Back When, well over a decade ago, when the EC adopted
stringent controls on the retention of personal data and on
what could be done with it?

remember how US interests, including the US Governement, had
screaming fits about how these regulations were pointless and
unnecessary and would be a horrible burden, not to mention
provoke male pattern baldness?

and now we have the same contingent of miscreants trying to
mollify the victims by trying to convince them it's somwhow
*their* problem that personal data about them has been grossly
misused for someone else's profit.

chalk-up one big point for those clever Europeans.
nothing like having the foresight to get in front of a problem
rather than waiting for it to become a sucking chest wound.

harumph

 -mo

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