In the next edition, I hope Bacard will tell American readers what we can learn from pro-privacy movements in other countries. I'd also like him to speculate about future technologies. What many of us seek in picking up stakes and heading for the electronic frontier is greater overall self-determination in life. This is impossible without being able to control information by and about us. This is the heart of privacy.
Privacy is both a matter of right and of practice.
It is a fundamental premise of this country's founding that rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, of which I am a founder, is deeply involved in Washington in the fight to make sure rights such as privacy, as well as freedom of expression, are not abridged in Cyberspace. I am deeply troubled by the profound resistance of certain agencies of the U.S. government to see this matter through to its proper conclusion. This does not mean we give up the fight to make public policy which increases our privacy and our freedom. Far from it.