RE: Greg: E-Commerce: Benefit vs Risk

[Greg Peisert <gpeisert@jamesgregory.com>]

Dear Ed;

  Well, I don't think you are a lunatic. Not by any means. The question I 
am asking is whether or not there is a viable way we can control the 
protection of personal information in an electronic age. I don't think we 
can stop the use of it for various e-commerce functions. Indeed, I like it. 
I like PC banking and automatic deposits, credit cards, etc. So do tens of 
millions of others. So, in that sense, I think, yes, "resistance is futile" 
in stopping the proliferation of electronic commerce. But I don't think it 
is futile to enact and enforce legislation to control the use of that 
information.

  Do you agree, or do you think the whole e-commerce phenomenon can be 
stopped in its tracks?

Best,
  --Greg

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On Sunday, January 17, 1999 11:57 AM, Edward Britton 
[SMTP:fremin@geocities.com] wrote:
> Greg:
>
<snip>
>
> So, perhaps we should fold our tents now, line up to be branded with our
> own UPC codes, and join the vast plutocratic collective along with the 
rest
> of the drones. After all resistence is futile :-)
>
> Never mind all that fanatical talk of "liberty and justice for all"; 
never
> mind putting forth some semblence of passive/peaceful resistence, let's
> just sign up for our biometric cards right now..........MY ASS!!!
>
> Funny how I can go from a knee jerk liberal to a member of the lunatic
> fringe without changing my stance on anything. Strange things, these
> political dichotomies.
>
> Edward   ><>