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Wm. Safire on Privacy actions



http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/safire/050100safi.html

Safire is as it turns out not satisfied with the privacy is property
argument. Instead he has become, or may have always been, a strong privacy
activist. 

He ends this column:

"Harangues on this issue will continue in this space, while apostles of
efficiency, in bureaucracies public and private, try to pooh-pooh concerns
of newly energized asserters of privacy.

Consent! is our byword. And our first line of defense is the private,
personal Social Security number; we won't let anybody coerce us into
giving it out."

But don't trust me to report; check it out for yourselves.
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