Why shouldn't I be able to sell it. Information is free. If it's illegal to sell it in the US, I'm sure Marketing Info, Inc., operating out of Costa Rica, would be happy to sell the information about your buying habits.

If we're talking about a US-based, on-shore operation, the reason why you should not be able to sell my buying habits, ethical and legal, would be that I gave them to you in the first place, for a specific purpose. If we're talking about Costa Rica, which has achieved mythical status as a data haven in some future cupherpunked world, thenwe're not in the US any more. We're in the world of the Internet, of the technology-is-law life that appeals to so many of us (including me), and you wouldn't be able to track my buying habits anyway. I'd be using the alpha.c2.org remailer, which would have conveniently located itself in - where else - Costa Rica. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Indian Techonomist - newsletter on India's information industry http://dxm.org/techonomist/ rishab@dxm.org Editor and publisher: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab@arbornet.org Vox +91 11 6853410; 3760335; H 34 C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA