Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:13:03 -0700 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <199707181713.KAA05887@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <199707181558.LAA15521.kithrup.freebsd.chat@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <199707181558.LAA15521.kithrup.freebsd.chat@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> you write: >Well, the good ol' FTC is taking a hand in the Internet now. It >appears that they have declared it illegal to request information on >minors without the parent's consent. As I recall, what they have done was said that it was not permissable to *sell* personal information gathered abotu a child without the parents' permission. Frankly, I don't think they went far enoguh -- I don't want it to be permissable to sell information about *me* without my consent. Yet that happens all the time. This happened because there was a Web site that collected information about children, and gave out "points" for candy and/or toys for some activities; the company then sold that information ("anonymized," they claimed) to various companies. This pissed a bunch o' people off.
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