Now someone can jump online and find out a great deal from your voter registration or the DMV, ... What used to be considered private is out there for everyone to look at.

Reporters keep calling me and asking if the Internet is to blame for this. Of course the Internet isn't to blame for it -- any more than the comet is to blame.

Less than half of our households have a computer. Only a third of those log on. So most people see this as being mysterious technology.