Archive for James Plummer
Ignoring Real Privacy Problems
James Plummer is a policy analyst with Consumer Alert, a nonpartisan market-oriented consumer group based in Washington, D.C. The folks who make up the behemoth known as the federal government have been fretting about privacy, especially Privacy in the Information Age. Proposed commissions, innumerable conferences, and government reports hype the “danger” posed by online booksellers’ [...]
1Dec2000 | James Plummer | 5 comments | Continued-
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