[9484] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Grimm)
Thu Jan 6 19:29:59 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 15:37:19 -0800
From: koreth@hyperion.com (Steven Grimm)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.4.757898818.dhgo@kimbark.uchicago.edu>
>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.
That's way too strong. It would prevent me from fingering you to see if
you were logged on so I could "talk" you to ask a question, for instance,
since you wouldn't have given me prior permission to check your login
status. Aside from being unfriendly, such a policy would be really tough
to enforce or even implement.
-Steve
