[LINK] US-AMA far too complacent about human RFID tags

[Geoffrey Ramadan]

Roger Clarke wrote:
> At 13:28 +1000 3/7/07, Geoffrey Ramadan wrote:
>> 2) To link a previous thread, maybe you should look at using the 
>> technology to "shift the balance of power" so the "bastards" are NOT 
>> in control. Universal access to broadband I suspect will be a key 
>> ingredient in this.
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> That's the David Brin 'privacy through transparency rather than 
> secrecy' thesis.
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> It's naive, because it requires the powerful to willingly relinquish 
> power.  They don't *do* that kind of thing.
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> http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/CACM99.html#Brin
I have read the article. I don't think it is about the Powerful 
"relinquishing" power, its about the "masses" obtaining NEW or shifting 
power delivered by the Internet. This is why China want to control 
access to the Internet.

Geoff

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