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Dr. Oscar Gawron my dear father. Here he is in all his glory. In the lab at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh doing pure research in Biochemistry. Later he became Graduate Dean. This is really where he liked to be.
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Irene Gawron my dear mother. She had just graduated Hunter College here. It would be summer 1944. This was a vacation she took to Lake George before she met my father.
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On the left my brilliant older sister Elizabeth. In the middle is Pete the Dog. Yours truly, the little Sorcerer's Apprentice himself, is on the right, where else. It says March 1957 on the photo.
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Re: Whither NSA Surveillance: A Response to Cato's Julian Sanchez and Tim Lynch
Dr. Epstein,
As usual your analysis is both fundamental and wide ranging. However, one issue bothers me, storage.
If you are familiar with Moore's Law, that fundemental computing power doubles every 2 years, than you must realize that storage is a problem. As the cost goes down and the speed goes up the temptation to store everything 'just in case' will be there. If I am only getting the meta data but I can store what's inside the envelope, 'just in case', than some future less responsible bureaucrat can make a decision to massively invade the expectation of privacy.
Dr. Epstein this is not just science fiction paranoia. Moore's Law was coined in 1965. Since the late 70s it has not been exactly true in that computing power has doubled every 18 months rather than every 2 years.
The expectation of privacy needs to be clearly constitutionally recognized and defined.
Regards,
Jim