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Re: InfoWar

To: [email protected] (David G. Koontz)
Subject: Re: InfoWar
From: Scott Brickner <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 16:44:41 -0600
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:24:15 PST.) <[email protected]>
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David G. Koontz writes:
> 
>>Industry representatives played down the privacy loopholes.
>>Ronald Plesser, a Washington attorney who represents online
>>services and direct marketing firms, said, "I know of no
>>example of anybody trafficking in e-mail descriptions." A
>>spokeswoman for Hughes Electronics Corp.'s DirecTV said, "We
>>do not release names of customers that ordered movies.
> 
>The name of the customer of a video tape rental may be disclosed
>only under narrow constraints (USC 18 Chap 121 2710):

Didn't you read the post?  The whole point was that the constraints
*don't* cover many *new* technology.  Sure, your local video store
can't release the data, but your *cable* company is under no such
constraint with regard to pay-per-view.  Ditto with Hughes DirecTV.

References:
- Re: InfoWar
  - From: [email protected] (David G. Koontz)

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