Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: Database Registration and privacy acts Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Date: Fri, 17 May 91 14:38:29 GMT Message-ID: <1991May17.143829.3504@looking.on.ca> References: <1991May14.040427.10453@looking.on.ca> Actually, the real trick would be not to ignore it, but to organize full compliance -- swamping them. Problem is this probably costs money. For example, I have hundreds of mail folders collecting mail I have received and mail I have sent. Megabytes of stuff which includes people who have corresponded with me on certain topics. This is a database of people and their opinions. My /etc/passwd is a database of people and their full names and addresses and shells etc. My filing cabinet is a paper version. If people complied fully, you might get dozens or hundreds of databases per person. What would they do? -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473