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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:17:43 -0800 From: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.com> To: cwd-l@cyberwerks.com Subject: CWD--We're Not in Kansas Anymore Sender: owner-cwd-l@cyberwerks.com

CyberWire Dispatch // Copyright (c) 1996 //

Jacking in from the "Abandon All Hope" Port:

Washington, DC -- Howard Stern's Private Parts ==========================

Although Howard Stern's privacy (is this an oxymoron?) isn't in question here, your privacy is.

The bill basically allows the telephone companies to use the data they have on you in any way they see fit, with one caveat: They must provide the same access to that information to competitors, if asked. As long as they don't hog all your private data, such as how many times you call Domino's Pizza or whether you're an avid QVC network shopper, they can sell your data to just about anyone and use it internal in ways that should make your skin crawl.

This is all laid out in admittedly banal Congress speak: "A local exchange carrier (that's your local phone company) may use, disclose, or permit access to aggregate customer information... only if it provides such aggregate information to other carriers or persons on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions up reasonable request therefore."

In other words, bend over and kiss your sweet aggregate good-bye.

Meeks out... --- end forwarded text