From philo@radix.net Mon Jan 29 21:58:28 2001 From: Philo Subject: Re: FC: Fed up with those supermarket discount cards? Make your own X-Sender: philo@saltmine.radix.net Cc: rob@epistolary.org Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:42:08 -0500 To: declan@well.com, politech@politechbot.com At 12:38 PM 1/28/2001 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >Me, I hate those Giant discount cards that you have to give up your >personal information to get. This is the free market at work, of course: I >value my privacy and relatively-empty meatspace mailbox more than the >discounts I'd receive. A *lot* of the privacy advocates I'm aware of say that this is how privacy should work - you pay for it if you want it. Openly circumventing the process encourages these companies to return to more covert ways of capturing the info. We've always said "let us make an informed choice about what information we give." Now that they are we're betraying that trust. Philo philo@radix.net AOLIM: philo589 ICQ: 9802707 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Don't waste your time on jealousy; Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind... The race is long, and in the end it's only with yourself. -Mary Schmich