From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!amd70!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: fa.human-nets
Title: Re: HUMAN-NETS Digest   V6 #24
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1547
Posted: Thu Apr 14 06:39:11 1983
Received: Mon Apr 18 03:48:18 1983
References: brl-bmd.556

Another comment about the texas computer crime law:
If I recall correctly (could someone re-post the text of the law) the
law provided NO protection FROM operators.  Doesn't this seem like an
important omission?  If a commercial networking company starts to read
the mail that it transfers (presumably in violation of a contract)
shouldn't this be a criminal offense comparable to interfering with
paper mail?  Also, if various types of "use profiles" (relative use of
various services, frequency of detectable syntax errors in using the
shell or other features, some estimate of reading/writing speed etc.)
were constructed of particular users, shouldn't disclosure of that data
require user consent (analogous to school transcripts)?  I don't recall
seeing anything like this.	-Jeffrey Soreff (hplabs!soreff)