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From: webber@psych.toronto.edu (Bob Webber)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: City Directory?
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Date: 7 Dec 89 19:38:15 GMT
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These directories are used by companies wanting to know what to sell and
to whom.  Anything you release to the Might Directory people will be
seen and likely used by salespeople.  That is essentially what a city
directory is for: providing data so that sales can be focussed and
markets analyzed.

There is no "invasion" of privacy, since this is not an abuse of data
you are required to make available to an agency.  If you co-operate with
the directory compilers, however, you are surrendering some of your
privacy, presumably in exchange for being better served by businesses
and their sales forces.  If you don't like being sold at, don't tell
the directory compilers about yourself.