Re: [projectvrm] blog post on control of personal data

[Doc Searls < >]

Just de-splitting the links below.

Doc

On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Crosbie Fitch wrote:

> Epilogue
> 
> From the blog of Harry Lewis:
> <http://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/2011/11/this-weekss-government-attacks-on.html>
> (via David Weinberger
> <http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2011/11/20/berkman-buzz-51/ >
> 
> "In several talks I have given, I have suggested that we could, in the
> interest of protecting privacy, see government rules limiting how much data
> on a particular subject individuals could collect--making information sort
> of like fertilizer, legal in small quantities but requiring government
> permission to possess in gross."
> 
> "I am in favor of privacy, but there is nothing in the Constitution about it
> that is as absolute as the guarantees of freedom of thought and freedom of
> speech."
> 
> There is no conflict between liberty and privacy, unless the latter is
> corrupted, unnaturally extended beyond the protection of an individual's
> physical boundaries into constraints upon the communication of proscribed
> information (quasi-private qua confidential/personal information).