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From: stokes@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Perry Stokes)
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Subject: Re: Prodigy charged with invading users' privacy
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Date: 7 May 91 01:24:54 GMT
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In article <1991May6.225049.10812@ruacad.ac.runet.edu> leng@ruacad.ac.runet.edu (Lud Eng) writes:
>Also, I'm not sure... Is it actually illegal for them to read any file on
>the system with their program as long as they don't do something like upload
>it without you knowing?  I still haven't seen anyone who has actually looked
>to see if the contents of this file are being uploaded or not.. just that the
>file exists.

Nope.  It is my understanding that all legal rights are given up when you 
sign on to PRODIGY for the first time.

I believe this is explained in the user agreement.


Perry

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