Re: Big Brother Treaty Moves Ahead

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 13:34:46 MDT


Clearly, a very critical issue for Extropians. There couldn't possibly be
a more appropriate place on the Net to discuss this.

John Marlow wrote:
>
> A controversial international treaty aimed at combatting online crime
> has entered the home stretch before ratification. ...
>
> "I would say it's the worst process I've seen so far when it comes to
> transparency in government," said Gus Hosein, a senior fellow at
> Privacy International and a lecturer at the London School of
> Economics. "For the entire time, there's been complete resistance to
> make any changes to accommodate the interests of industry or
> society."
>
> http://www.idg.net/ic_521511_1794_9-10000.html
> John Marlow

-- 
Brian Atkins
Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/



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