From: IN%"declan+@CMU.EDU" "Declan B. McCullagh" 24-MAY-1996 23:16:49.32

From a strict libertarian standpoint, it may implicate property rights. I won't argue that.

But I tend to think of my (and individual) privacy rights as ones that should receive greater attention than a businesses "privacy rights." If they have mailing list info on me, I'd like to know where they got it.

Well, it's either from someone you chose to hand it over to... or from someone you didn't. In the first case, it's your problem. In the second case, then you've got a claim. We have no disagreement on that governments and other coercive institutions shouldn't be allowed to collect more information than necessary, or to release any such information to an uninvolved third party. As Hal pointed out, we also have no disagreement with trying to reduce the level of information that you give out by accident or for the sake of convenience - e.g., credit cards. -Allen