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From: rogers@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Bob Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Lotus Marketplace
Keywords: CD-Rom consumer database,privacy
Message-ID: <725@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 90 19:46:13 GMT
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It would be nice if somebody would buy Marketplace and, using the information in
the database itself, send a mailing to people who appear in it.  The mailing
could tell Lotus' victim about the information Marketplace contains about him,
explain the privacy issues raised, and include stamped envelopes, and possibly
pre-printed letters of protest for the victim to sign, to the victim's
congressman, senator, and to Lotus.

Companies that maintain databases, especially those that make the information
available to others, should be required by law to send people complete copies
of their records each time the records are changed.
-- 
Bob Rogers                         bob.rogers@stpaul.ncr.com  
NCR Network Products Div.             (or) rogers@pnet51.orb.mn.org
St. Paul, MN                       GEnie: R.C.ROGERS