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From: joe [Joe Zitt]
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Lotus Marketplace
Message-ID: <oTV2s1w163w@zitt>
Date: 22 Nov 90 18:28:11 GMT
References: <1990Nov21.035243.15799@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: The Shekhinah Project, Austin, TX
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gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

> that a rather simple change of attitude -- "the customer has to agree
> before we can sell their name" -- will go a long way towards solving
> the problem.

I would guess that this would simply lead to the data collectors putting 
a bit of miniscule print on the bottom of, say, a credit card receipt 
like "The affixing of a signature to this document affirms that the 
client may make appropriate use of the related information" or some other 
doublespeak designed to make people who don't read every detail sign away 
their rights. Kinda like the weird pseudo-English on software license
agreements...

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