From: Tom Sweetnam (savamutt@trailnet.com)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 14:54:13 PDT
Joachim Feise wrote:
"Another, somewhat unrelated thing is that their use of cookies brought down
my browser. I have set cookie warnings on in Netscape, and the
loosing/gaining focus on the name fields when the warning dialog box pops up
and is dismissed caused an infinite loop."
You forgot to give it a banana before you entered the site.
I was a member of Equifax back in the 80's, and if pulling up a person's
credit bureau wasn't telling enough back then, anyone with access to credit
records now can supplement their scrutiny with personality "templates" that
can reveal more about a person's behavior and mental state than you would
ever believe possible. It's the price we pay for convenience. I'm not going
to stop using my credit cards.
Its not what people know about me that might make me paranoid, its not
knowing what they know about me that concerns me even more. I want to know
what the criteria are on which anyone is basing any interaction with me. In
our age of all-encompassing databases, broader freedom of information
legislation is inevitable I'm sure, laws that will enforce free access to
personal records in the private sector as well as in government. Not that
long ago, the average citizen couldn't get a copy of their own credit file.
Now you are guaranteed two free copies per year.
The imagination quakes at the aftermath of such public information access
laws, such that the virtual burning barrels in the alley behind Microsoft
would probably light the skies of Washington for months on end, paling by
comparison the torching of embarrassing records by a retreating German army
all through '45. ;-)
I was a member of Equifax back in the 80's, and if pulling up a person's
credit bureau wasn't telling enough back then, anyone with access to credit
records now can supplement their scrutiny with personality "templates" that
can reveal more about a person's behavior and mental state than you would
ever believe possible. It's the price we pay for convenience. I'm not going
to stop using my credit cards.
Its not what people know about me that might make me paranoid, its not
knowing what they know about me that concerns me even more. I want to know
what the criteria are on which they are basing any interaction with me. I
want far broader freedom of information legislation act that will enforce
such access in the private sector as well as in government.
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