Replaces regular meeting
It's picnic time!
Here's a meeting day when you don't have to set your alarm. Instead, pack up your family and other interested
parties to join NIA from noon to 3 p.m. June 22 at the annual picnic at Galena Creek Park off Mt. Rose Highway.
This event will replace the regular Saturday morning meeting and speaker.
The hosted lunch will include chicken, salads, biscuits and various condiments. Soft drinks and tableware will
be provided. (No alcohol is allowed in the park.)
For those who really want to contribute something to the success of the day, dessert will be pot luck. Pick your
favorite summer picnic dessert and bring enough for your Own party and a few others.
The picnic committee includes Don Costar, chairman, and Randy Sloan and Len Schweitzer.
We'll see you at Galena Creek Park from 5 noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 22.
SBIR workshop planned for July Be checking your e-mail for news of the upcoming workshop to be put on in July by
the SBIR Procurement Outreach Program of the Nevada Commission on Economic Development.
Roy Singleton, who spoke at our February meeting, wants specifically to invite NIA members to join this workshop.
If you don't receive an email invitation but are interested in learning more about his "free money for inventors"
program, call 687-1813 for details.
Is privacy a thing of the past? Sci-fi writer David Brin's 1990 book, Earth, shows a world there "video
cameras are everywhere, [and] all of the world's data is available cheaply on the world data net."
Today, a mere 12 years later, whenever we go online, it is common to receive an onscreen notice that our information
will not be protected if we continue. And video cameras truly are everywhere: Obvious locations like banks and
convenience stores and less obvious spots like bridges, restaurants and gyms. Some of this is the result of September
11; some the result of crime. But what does it do to our privacy?
A feature story on Good Morning America on June 14, followed a young woman around a typical work day in New York
pointing out many of the dozens of video cameras - obvious and disguised to varying degrees - that captured her
image as she went through a typical work day.
Telemarketers seem to be able to find any of us by name long before the friend we forgot to notify of a change
of number, while junk mail will find us at every move. Meanwhile, those of us who use the Internet commonly invite
advertising when we look up sites or products that interest us in what Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, PhD call
"solicited advertising."*
So far there is no definitive answer as to how much privacy any of us has left, and the future seems to depend
on the integrity of those who control the information.
*Enterprise One to One: Tools for Competing in the Interactive Age. (Doubleday, 1997)
This privacy article was motivated by a segment on NPR's Science Friday June 7, 2002 when one of the guests
was Simson Gafrinkel, coauthor of Web Security, Privacy and Commerce (O'Reilly, 2001) and a columnist for Technology
Review.
A list of Garfinkel's list of "some good books on privacy issues that have been published in recent years"
is available on the website, www.sciencefriday.com or by going to www.capradio.org and following
the link to Talk of the Nation and Science Friday.
Listed books go as far back as Mark Twain's Pudd 'Nhead Wilson, the first popular account of using fingerprints
to solve a crime, and a doctoral dissertation about privacy in colonial times. More contemporary accounts deal
with recent law, current issues and technology.
Page done by Vince Chemist.
Created on July 7 2002
Updated on November 29, 2005