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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,alt.censorship
Subject: Re: Prodigy charged with invading users' privacy
Message-ID: <1991May1.022615.23553@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 02:26:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.185752.4913@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1991Apr30.225133.8165@craycos.com> <1991May1.015111.6232@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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The problem inherent in Prodigy's client-server method of service
delivery has always been that the system can create a template, a
mirror image, of the personal information entered into the person's
PC in the course of activity.  I don't know if this has happened;
Prodigy's managers have always seemed to be aware of the danger of
invasion of privacy when questioned about it.

Bob Jacobson
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