Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!ogicse!milton!cyberoid From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Database Regulation (was Re: Post Office plans.) Message-ID: <13444@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 25 Dec 90 00:16:07 GMT References: <13284@milton.u.washington.edu> <1990Dec22.040101.26926@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle Lines: 23 In article <1990Dec22.040101.26926@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes: >In article <13284@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes: >> >>So let's get to the bottom line: what's * private information * ? >> >>Bob Jacobson > Information that only you (and yours) know. > > >-- >zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM How about information that you choose to share with someone -- a doctor, priest, or attorney -- in confidence? Or information that you give up for a commercial transaction having first obtained the agreement of the new holder of the information that it will not be passed to a third party or used for some other purpose? Or information about you that is somehow purloined or misgotten? Easy answers to "personal information" abound, but usually don't work.