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Re: IP: Privacy: FTC Losing Patience w/Business

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Thu Sep 24 20:41:02 1998

In-Reply-To: <199809240731.AAA25674@netcom13.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:20:18 -0500
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>

At 2:31 AM -0500 9/24/98, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
>From: believer@telepath.com
>Subject: IP: Privacy: FTC Losing Patience w/Business
>Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:33:09 -0500
>To: believer@telepath.com
>
>Source:  New York Times
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/biztech/articles/21privacy.html
>
>September 21, 1998
>
>F.T.C. 'Losing Patience' With Business on
>A site called Soccer Patch (www.soccerpatch.com) is a trading post for
>soccer-playing children who want to trade team patches. It lists the names,
>e-mail addresses and in some cases the hometowns of children who want to
>trade patches. That is a red flag for F.T.C. enforcers. They worry that
>child molesters can use the information to find victims.

	Since when is it the job of the F.T.C worry about child molesters?

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