Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 14:49:52 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: sef@Kithrup.COM Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <199707181849.OAA16644@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707181713.KAA05887@kithrup.com> (message from Sean Eric Fagan on Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:13:03 -0700)
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>>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. This is correct, I had misunderstood the initial report I heard. >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 is true. But the decision was more far-reaching than just dissemation of information; it also included collection of information. Cheers, joelh -- Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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