Re: The End of Privacy ?

Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:58:21 -0400


Eugene Leitl wrote:

> Dan Clemmensen writes:
>
> > Worrying about your magnetic strips being tracked in this fashion is silly.
> > However, if you carry a cell phone with you, you are in fact being constantly
> > tracked by a large and pervasive computer system under the control of a
> > large and pervasive organization. So what?
>
> Worse: in Germany the cellular providers have been legally forced to
> instain snoopware automagically getting a position fix of 100-200 m
> precision. Also, there are now portable cellphone ID sniffers. With this,
> you can link spoken history of a phone user to his timespace history.
>
> Of course all the nice technology installed never gets used on
> anybody, and if, it is always a certified villain.

Yes, the state/media complex always makes sure that everyone 'knows' that the
individual preyed upon is 'definitely' a villain. What was that that Goering said
about lying enough to make it true???

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