RE: [Leica] Perhaps more reason to avoid ebay

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Damn that Social Security Act, the death knell for us all!;-)

As to what Ebay does or doesn't provide information on - if one reads
Mr. Sekurity Direktor Sullivan's statements, he says "send us a fax" and
we'll give you what you've got. That doesn't sound to me like Ebay needs
to see evidence of a crime, a complaint, or anything else. What happened
to "send us a subpoena and we will of course comply?"

B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Joseph
Codispoti
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:55 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Perhaps more reason to avoid ebay


In response to several posts:

eBay primarily provides information to authorities investigating crimes
that may be committed through the auction process. Were it not for
eBay's watchdog policies, there would be few honest auctions.

When in public one should not expect privacy. I would resent being
photographed only if I were being exploited in some way. Should an
individual in the process of being arrested have the right to privacy
(not being photographed)?

I cannot understand how so many really believe that they are shielded
from public scrutiny. One need only ask for one's own credit report from
the major four agency in order to discover that the credit bureaus know
more about the individual than the individual himself.

When in 1935 the Social Security Act was passed by Congress privacy was
dealt the initial death knell. From birth an individual can be tracked
through the SS number. Then came the recording of finger prints (at
birth) and now DNA.

Years ago, when I saw restaurant's booths for the first time I thought
that it was an odd and contradictory practice to want to go out in
public only to hide in order to preserve privacy.

The more we think we are private, the less privacy we are accorded. The
more we expect privacy, the more we are disappointed.

Joseph Codispoti




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