Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!airs!ian From: ian@airs.UUCP (Ian Lance Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Information Control Message-ID: <1233@airs.UUCP> Date: 27 Mar 91 06:46:45 GMT References: <106376@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: airs!ian@uunet.uu.net (Ian Lance Taylor) Organization: AIRS, Waltham, MA Lines: 19 In article spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) writes: > >If you are involved in a business transaction where you divulge >information that you want to remain private, than just put it in the >contract that the information must remain private. If they tell >anyone, sue! what could be simpler? This might possibly be workable, but it is not simple. For example, I occasionally find it necessary to mail order various items. I doubt the mail order companies would be willing to enter into such a contract, not necessarily because they want to sell my address and information about my purchases but because it would likely be more time and effort for them than the sale would be worth. -- Ian Taylor airs!ian@uunet.uu.net uunet!airs!ian First person to identify this quote wins a free e-mail message: ``Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but inconsistency does tend to bring one to the attention of the police computers.''