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- From: grey@bnr.ca (Grey)
- Subject: Re: Michal - Who should protect your rights?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:02:29 GMT
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- In article <C1826A.2np@cs.psu.edu>, beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- > peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >
- > >I would dearly love to have such public records more easily available.
- > >A national computerized database of birth and death records would be a
- > >good start. I don't see that this would violate privacy since such
- > >records are already public -- but it would greatly improve access
- > >and simplify record-keeping. Comments anyone?
- >
- > A common misconception is that making "public" records more available
- > does not decrease privacy. Many things that are public remain so
- > by virtue of the difficulty of retrieval -- the price of a house,
- > the age and number of people in your household, etc. Nobody objected
- > (strongly) to their being public since the easy counterargument was,
- > "It's too hard to get that info, anyway." You really have to re-evaluate
- > all sorts of "public" records before you broadcast them.
- >
- > And imagine the resulting junk mail. I find more serious problems with
- > the concept of making any "public" information easily accessible,
- > but I suggest you look at comp.risks/alt.privacy if you're interested
- > in discussing it.
-
- These are serious problems with the concept of accessibility of information.
- Before going to the trouble of trying to address whether this sort of
- information can be made available in a reasonable and secure manner, do
- you agree that improved access satisfies your right to knowledge of your
- child, or would you argue that the father must be explicitly notified? If
- the latter is the case, there's no point in pursuing the privacy issue further?
-
- Grey
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