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From: ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: minor Siggraph question
Message-ID: <10698@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 89 14:34:08 GMT
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Reply-To: ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <4896@alvin.mcnc.org> spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes:
>In article <60901@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
>
>Sure.  It's called *marketing*.  The information garnered from the badges is
>*salable* to vendors, market researchers, the NSA (want to join the NSA?  Just
>pick up any telephone and dial any number.  Ask for Fort Meade :-) ).  Does
>this come as any surprise from an organization that has become so
>commercialized and gee-whiz Hollywood as SIGGRAPH has become?

There are only two ways that anyone outside of ACM gets the information from
your registration form (which is where it is keyed in, the badges are just
copies of some of the information).

(a) You give them your badge.

(b) You check off the box on the registration form that says it is OK for
SIGGRAPH to release the information.