-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Yanked from today's Edupage:
ONLINE SERVICES HAVE DATA MINES, TOO The online service you use has been compiling data on you too, including your social security number, credit card number, demography and interest areas. Using this and other data, CompuServe offers a service called CompuTrace, which offers the last known address for any person in the U.S. A similar service will tell you how long someone has had a particular phone number or lived at a particular address and who else lives there, and yet another service provides information on how to obtain driving records, state by state. A bill was passed by the House last month that would require all telecommunications companies, including online services, to tell consumers what information is being collected, how it's being used, and provide an opportunity to opt out. (Tampa Tribune 8/15/94 B&F 3)
======== We need 'nyms with electronic reputations, and true electronic cash to protect the "real" us from things like CompuTrace (not to mention the USPS practice of selling to junk mailers whatever info you give them on address change cards). The alternative is yet another law... I don't know whether to applaud the House bill, or curse. Anyone have the bill number? Rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a-sterno-bait iQCVAgUBLlHU2fobez3wRbTBAQHQHQQAo825CO9AbC4BJgbZs5mrqr6sQh5BwzfY HmhxWX9vNF91h/ErnG+cuywMAmsmaUpUurEvHUk5IiAa+xs1tcExVr62EP+MTwKx zyllH1hX4NpUpbIAMPvR0OD7iUvvVxgKiA1SF6qYWtj1ZY0lpI9bAe47+tEI8PDJ XeoOQoWUMnw= =VMAA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----