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From: del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Citizens of the City of Mind
Message-ID: <911@fnx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 91 23:18:41 GMT
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In article <17230@venera.isi.edu> woolf@dca.isi.edu (Suzanne Woolf) writes:
>In article <1225@airs.UUCP> airs!ian@uunet.uu.net (Ian Lance Taylor) writes:
>>In article <3778.27dd2150@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) writes:
>>>In article <1991Mar11.070712.4223@cs.ucla.edu>, gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes:

>consent.  But I'm interested in other people's ideas about how to
>handle this problem when *every* service provider you can find is
>reselling information without permission, or when it proves impossible
		....
>with suggesting "more laws" as an answer to anything, but what would
>people want to see in a "Propagation of Private Information" law?

I just had an interesting idea, sparked somewhat by the idea that
in the future the most valuable commodity will be information.  It
only requires a new interpretation and application of existing law.

The copyright laws.  A person's personal information, including
address, phone #, financial and medical data, would be protected
by copyright.  An institution would have implicit contract to what
amounts to a site license to use your information for any purposes
within the organization, but would be prohibited from selling or
giving the information to any other person or organization without
your express consent.

Comments?

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del AKA Erik Lindberg                             uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del
                          Who is John Galt?