Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!isis.cs.du.edu!sbrack From: sbrack@isis.cs.du.edu (Steven S. Brack) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Lifestyle Information ( was Re: Safeway Stores to Accept Charge Summary: repost from comp.dcom.telecom Message-ID: <1991Apr30.184714.4675@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: 30 Apr 91 18:47:14 GMT References: <1991Apr20.022809.10259@svc.portal.com> <1991Apr30.143000.17493@cbnewse.att.com> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Reply-To: sbrack@isis.UUCP (Steven S. Brack) Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk, alt.privacy, alt.censorship Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.) Lines: 16 Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver Disclaimer2: for the Denver community. The University has neither control over Disclaimer3: nor responsibility for the opinions of users. Two articles appeared in comp.dcom.telecom recently: The first talks about Prodigy apparently uploading information from users machines without their knowledge. This information has included programs, legal records, & personal documents. The second regard GEnie (again) apparently terminating someone's account because they were critical of GEnie's administrators. I will post these two articles as followups to this one. -- =========================================================================== Steven S. Brack sbrack@nyx.cs.du.edu | I have yet to find a I am not speaking for the Ohio State University. | quote good enough & Now, if only I could convince them of that 8) | short enough.