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From: len@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Leonard P Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Unions denied access to commercial database services
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Date: 26 Dec 87 21:39:09 GMT
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In article <8712240541.AA00416@media-lab.MIT.EDU> mt@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael Travers) writes:
>
>Last week, Dialog Information Services, a carrier of Dun & Bradstreet
>financial databases--including the now-restricted Dun's Financial
>Records--told labor union librarians that they would no longer be able
>to access certain files.
>

Dunn and Bradstreet did this because their input sources felt that they 
were opening up their books to adversarial "entities" including the
IRS.  D & B, in order to stay in business, is placating their sources.

Everybody knows there is no way they can keep the unions from getting
the info on line -- just not directly for now.  This is the opening 
gun for the information wars to come, with questions as to who controls
what being the issue.

Len Levine
len@evax.milw.wisc.edu