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Re: WWW privacy and confidentiality

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hilding)
Sun Jan 22 03:02:15 1995

Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 08:25:42 +0100
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From: Eric Hilding <eric@hilding.com>
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On Sun, 22 Jan 1995, Thomas -- not Tom -- Maslen wrote:

> > Putting up a WWW server is in some very real sense equivalent to opening a
> > store for business.  In a litiginous society, any ofering of public
> > services is accompanied by some risk of attracting adverse legal action. 
> > It might be a good idea for WWW providers to get (and share?) some legal
> > advice on these issues.  
> 
> .. or, if the climate within the US gets just too silly, think about
> electronically moving offshore (what do those first two W's stand for,
> again?).  What's the going price on a T3 in Liberia, Panama or the Cayman 
> Islands, anyway?

Drop V.P. Al Gore a line:  vice.president@whitehouse.gov   (I Think)  :)

Perhaps a few Senators or Congressmen might know...or have "ties"
to the offshore sites.  :)

Eric Hilding
eric@xx.com



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