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From: craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Lotus Marketplace
Keywords: CD-Rom consumer database,privacy
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.133632.15712@com50.c2s.mn.org>
Date: 23 Nov 90 13:36:32 GMT
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In article <1990Nov22.081955.4127@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>The problem of criminal use is a tough one.   Perhaps I'll sound like
>the NRA here ("If guns are outlawed, only outlaws...") but we must realize
>that no matter what laws we put in place, groups like the mob are going
>to have these databases, and may indeed make money selling "good place to
>break in" information.

I am curious as to how the proposed restrictions would affect religious
organizations.  Specifically, in the United States, I am wondering about the
effect on the huge database the Mormons have in Salt Lake City.  Supposedly,
they have a large genealogical database tracking births and deaths.  I don't
know what else they track.

Under the proposed restrictions would it be okay to compile data as long as 
it isn't used?  Or if I suspected an organization of having "illegal" data 
on me, could I send the SS after them?

/craig