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From: seals@uncecs.edu (Larry W. Seals)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Prodigy charged with invading users' privacy
Summary: But then there's the *real* invasion...
Keywords: Prodigy, STAGE.DAT, testing
Message-ID: <1991May2.181830.15771@uncecs.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 18:18:30 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.185752.4913@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1991May2.124553.25869@santra.uucp>
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I believe that sufficient evidence has been presented to convince me
that there's nothing to the STAGE.DAT business.  However, in comp.risks
(Vol. 11, Issue 59) Mary Culnan (mculnan@georgetown.edu) presents what
may be the real privacy concern with Prodigy.

In her post, she notes that Prodigy recently ran an ad in DM News (a
weekly newletter for direct marketers) extoling the virtues of it's
on-line direct marketing ability and the availability of it's 
subscriber's demographic information.

I think that might be of some concern to the Prodigy users.

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