[9482] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (donald goldhamer)
Thu Jan 6 18:29:55 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 17:26:58 CST
From: donald goldhamer <dhgo@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: Stephen D Crocker <crocker@tis.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 06 Jan 94 17:26:51 -0500
>The policy question: with respect to harvesting of names from Internet
>databases, finger, etc., if you could have the policy of your choice,
>what would it be?
I would like to see a policy which stated that
all information about individual persons is the private
property of that individual and cannot be used by anyone
without the owner's explicit permission for each type of use
by each user.
And the policy should have teeth, since it is very profitable to sell
such information, and to misuse it.
Such a policy would prohibit the harvesting of names or any similar
information from the internet without the permission of (and
potentially compensation to) each individual.
This would cover peoples' addresses and such information as their
newsreading habits and patterns of communication (i.e. in this case the
use of a public-access internet gateway).
Such policies are the norm in much of Europe and the civilized world.
For more detailed discussion of such protection of personal
information see the EFF and CPSR archives and information servers.
Donald H. Goldhamer
UCInfo Project Manager d-goldhamer@UChicago.EDU
Department of Academic & Public Computing 1155 E 60th, Chicago IL 60637
University of Chicago Computing Organizations (312)702-7166; fax: 702-3219
