	There is a real good reason why selling stock in a
company is calkd "going public." Does your electric
utility company have a r~ght to privacy that prevents
you from accessing and auditing its books? As a
stockholder in a major corporat~on, don't you have

a nght to know about the company? Why doesn't
your local manufacturer release to you the inform-
ation they hsvc already provided the U.S. Patent
Office or OSHA?

	Similarly, your state's wildlife department has
land-use data which can help you find a homestead
or a campsitc or a ski-slope. The department of
transportation computers can warn you in advance
of where holiday traffic acc~idents hsve occurred
over the last 10 years. The s~te treasury can show
you how much you, your employer or your neighbor
has paid ~n taxes.

Go out therc and get that data!!

The Libertanan E-Mail Directory is avai}ahle from
Dan Tob~as, 4025 Golf Links Blvd Apt. 340'
Shreveport, LA 71109, for $5.00. 1t conta~ns the
personal names and datapath names for about 40
libenarians us~ng ARPA, CompuServe, Delphi,
Internet, and other electronic mail systems.

aus; foompanics Catalog '87

``A person who is empioyed at a
higk-teck or unionized job can
afford fhe same ~evel of com-
puter power enyoyed by corp-
orations and goveraments. We
are af a stage in history where
ihe average individual can be a
diata proressing center. "

	A FINAL NOTEÄ fn November of 1986 ~he Reagan
admir~stration I~URChEd a direct assauft on your right to
process data. 7.hen-secarity advisor John Poindexier said rhat
the government was seehing ways to ~imit access to PI2/UA 7.E
DA TA BASE SER VICES. 7-his was echoed by Diane
Fountaine a Dcpr. of Defense speaker at a convention of ihe
Information Intustry Assaciation.

	Poindex~er said that the feds want to stop access to
informalion in the PUBL1C DOMAItI wAich rhey consider
"sensitive bal unciossifed." He largetted da~a on hazardaus
materials FederoJ Reserve polic,, sacial secarity and rke
Seruri~ies [;xchange Commission.

	Fo~ntaine's goafs involve resrrieting access tO puhlic
da1abase services like Nexis Dialog and Delphi. Tke Dept. of
Definse wouid have a law wAich requires database services rO
"redifag" individunis w~o ask tOO many quest~ons about so-
called high tech subjects fike tasers; users who are "red
flagged" wouid kave iheir names rurned over to rhe fe~s

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