Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Those (henious) Information Brokers; who are they? Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 19:04:06 GMT References: <8683@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr21.151853.11183@com50.c2s.mn.org> <8741@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr23.133156.5822@com50.c2s.mn.org> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu In <1991Apr23.133156.5822@com50.c2s.mn.org> craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson) writes: >Do you think that the lists that charitable organizations, special interest >groups, and profession specific companies use are not fine-tuned using >'lifestyle' parameters? If I donate to Greenpeace, does that help define >my lifestyle? Will Minnesota Freeze target me as more likely to provide >funds? [...] Here is a data point from one nonprofit organization: Unless a member requests otherwise, the ACLU will *lease* (not see) that member's name and address. Thus, a member can expect to an item or two a week from organizations like Greenpeace, etc. How can this be you ask? Doesn't this contradict the ACLU's policy of keeping its membership list confidential? Well, the ACLU doesn't actually give the list to Greenpeace. They give it to a trusted junk-mail printer. Greenpeace also gives their material to the junk-mail printer. Then the junk-mail printer puts address to envelope and then puts it all in the mailbox. - Carl p.s. I assume that the ACLU gets access to the Greenpeace mailing list under similar conditions. -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign