[42606] in Cypherpunks
Re: InfoWar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brickner)
Tue Oct 31 17:56:30 1995
To: koontz@maspar.com (David G. Koontz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, nobody@replay.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:24:15 PST.)
<9510311924.AA09550@argosy.MasPar.COM>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 16:44:41 -0600
From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
David G. Koontz writes:
>
>>Industry representatives played down the privacy loopholes.
>>Ronald Plesser, a Washington attorney who represents online
>>services and direct marketing firms, said, "I know of no
>>example of anybody trafficking in e-mail descriptions." A
>>spokeswoman for Hughes Electronics Corp.'s DirecTV said, "We
>>do not release names of customers that ordered movies.
>
>The name of the customer of a video tape rental may be disclosed
>only under narrow constraints (USC 18 Chap 121 2710):
Didn't you read the post? The whole point was that the constraints
*don't* cover many *new* technology. Sure, your local video store
can't release the data, but your *cable* company is under no such
constraint with regard to pay-per-view. Ditto with Hughes DirecTV.
