The Third Leg of Privacy Benefits

When you have control over who has access to your thoughts, your work and your data, it encourages and s creativity. It also gives a protection from governments and other large, concentrated powers. And for me, that's especially important with electronic data and communications. To my mind, the stuff is so sharp because it's so easy for it to get replicated, for it to be distributed,. For it to be intercepted or ease dropped. All that stuff is in there, what someone wrote 20 years ago, in a data base that's now in the hands of someone very different from whom originally it was in the handsof.