[IP] Big Business Becoming Big Brother
Begin forwarded message:
From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 9, 2004 6:27:04 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Big Business Becoming Big Brother
On 09 Aug 2004, at 14:36, David Farber wrote:
From: Randy Burge <burge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 9, 2004 8:18:51 AM PDT
<http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,64492,00.html>
Big Business Becoming Big Brother
...Corporations freely share information with
government agencies because [...] they fear increased government
scrutiny of their business practices if they don't share...
They don't have to be big business. My pharmacist told me bluntly
that, his privacy policy notwithstanding, he'd open his prescription
records to the cops any time they asked, because "if someone tries to
break in here I want them to show up when I call."
And _despite_ that it's safer to use him than the ssn-demanding
mega-chains in the same block.
I just have my doctor give a different name every time he calls in a
prescription. I think that as long as she doesn't prescribe a
painkiller she's probably not going to break any law that way.
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