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From: jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Lotus MarketPlace and Consumer Privacy
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Date: 4 Jan 91 01:09:32 GMT
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Doug Borchard writes about Lotus Marketplace, noting:
 
> ... limiting the data to what is readily available as a matter of 
> public record, Census data profiling, and similar sources ...
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I would point out that the Census is a major invasion of privacy 
in/of/by itself.  Data are supplied under threat of fine, hardly
a symptom of a free society.  Your claim to being ethical would
be far stronger were you to drop this source.

Jeff Daiell