Comments on: How Many Choicepoint Victims Are at Risk? http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/02/how-many-choicepoint-victims-are-at-risk.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sama http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/02/how-many-choicepoint-victims-are-at-risk.html/comment-page-1#comment-380 sama Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:14:02 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=458#comment-380 <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050216/D889M8IG0.html" rel="nofollow">http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050216/D889M8IG0.html</a> http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050216/D889M8IG0.html

]]> By: Cypherpunk http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/02/how-many-choicepoint-victims-are-at-risk.html/comment-page-1#comment-379 Cypherpunk Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:07:03 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=458#comment-379 Cypherpunks have argued for years that people should have the right to remember what they want about others. Ultimately it is futile to try to restrict the flow of data by regulating credit agencies and others who remember things. Once data is out there, it is out for good. These regulations are actually counter-productive, because not only don't they work, they give people a false feeling of security and confidence in our current account- and ID-based financial system. This undercuts any urge to go to a more privacy-protecting system based on well known cryptographic technologies which could go a long way towards fixing these problems. Cypherpunks have argued for years that people should have the right to remember what they want about others. Ultimately it is futile to try to restrict the flow of data by regulating credit agencies and others who remember things. Once data is out there, it is out for good.
These regulations are actually counter-productive, because not only don’t they work, they give people a false feeling of security and confidence in our current account- and ID-based financial system. This undercuts any urge to go to a more privacy-protecting system based on well known cryptographic technologies which could go a long way towards fixing these problems.

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