Access and Utilization
Access to school, university and municipality registry databases are typically limited to the law enforcement agency in charge of the registration program. Commercial registrars make their registration information available to law enforcement agencies on a wide scale by special request of the agency desiring such information. Peer-to-peer registries make their stolen bike information widely available to all persons (law enforcement and general public)via the Internet.
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“Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a majorperhaps the majorstake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.”
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