Re: 3 Proposals: session ID, business-card auth, customer auth

>Do we really want to end up having to struggle to get our basic rights
>back from companies that hold terabytes of information about us in a few
>years or do we deal with the issue now?  I think that there is a real
>need to be concerned about the what models and policies we adopt as we
>move into this new era and that this is not spreading Fear, Uncertainty,
>and Doubt.

        Political though it may sound,  Jim's right about this point.
I'm sure Dan and many others agree,  though I have doubts as to how
effective we'll be against the  determined  "undesirable profiler(s)".
Giving the users control over a profile that they choose to define
and choose to submit seems a step in the right direction.

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Rick Troth <troth@ua1vm.ua.edu>, Houston, Texas, USA
http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~troth/