From: <spm2101@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:28:42 -0500

Re: Amazon's Crystal Ball

This is the type of stuff that really scares me.  It's one thing for a 
small time crook to steal your SSN and use it to commit fraud.  We can make 
laws against that.  Our system is pretty good about taking care of random 
low level crime.  But it's a whole other game when huge corporations are 
predicting what you will do before you do it.  This isa new problem and I 
don't think we've figured out how to handle it as a society.  Our 
government already has enough problems saying no to big corporations; this 
will only make it worse.

Steve

--On Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:36 PM -0500 Jonah Bossewitch 
<jonah@ccnmtl.columbia.edu> wrote:

>
> In case you missed this:
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/16/2357221&tid=95&tid=218
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7149
>
> The future is getting closer every day...
>
> Also, if anyone is looking for another good example of legitimate peer to
> peer file sharing -
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66819,00.html?tw=wn_15culthead
>
> http://2005.sxsw.com/geekout/fest4pod/
>
> have a nice vacation,
> Jonah
>
>
>
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