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[David Wagoner <dbwagoner AT yahoo.com>]

That's an interesting argument, but I don't feel the
same way.

Let's say, for example, that I am a married man with
children and I get murdered.  Let's also assume that I
am a closet homosexual and frequently look at gay porn
on the web but I have not revealed any of this to
family or friends.  Now, if I am murdered then the
authorities can perform an autopsy on my body
searching for murder clues but they wouldn't know
about my gay tendencies.  However, if they searched my
computer they would certainly find out and most likely
leak private information that I did not want
publicized.  That's where I see a distinction in the
privacy issue- searching my body is different than
searching my mind (i.e., my computer in this case).


david


--- Don Rua <drua AT fullseven.com> wrote:
> If I was murdered, or my family, I would want
> authorities to have access to that information to
> pursue answers.  From a societal viewpoint, I would
> want the information used to prevent the culprit
> from killing again. Trying to take the ultimate
> mass-comm medium and force it into a paradigm of
> privacy as tight as face-to-face dialogue is
> something I'm not holding my breath for.  
> 
> I see viewing Chandra's web visits as minor compared
> to doing an autopsy on a murder victim.  If the
> authorities can poke their fingers around me guts,
> and run me fluids through analysis, then website
> visits of a murder victim are hardly shocking

> revelations to incorporate into my daily behavior.
> 
> 
> From: Calvin Powers calvin AT cspowers.com
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:11:46 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 1
> 
> Check out:
>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010720/us/condit_missing_woman.html
> 
> The FBI is publicly releasing a list of Websites
> that Chandra Levy visited 
> the day before she disappeared. Can anyone say,
> "invasion of privacy?" How 
> can we stop this from becoming routine?
> 
> 
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