From: Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 01:15:42 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: CompuTrace and the like
Message-ID: <199408170815.CAA23822@spot.Colorado.EDU>
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Yanked from today's Edupage:

> ONLINE SERVICES HAVE DATA MINES, TOO
>         The online service you use has been compiling data on you too,
> including your social security number, credit card number, demography and
> interest areas. Using this and other data, CompuServe offers a service
> called CompuTrace, which offers the last known address for any person in
> the U.S. A similar service will tell you how long someone has had a
> particular phone number or lived at a particular address and who else lives
> there, and yet another service provides information on how to obtain
> driving records, state by state. A bill was passed by the House last month
> that would require all telecommunications companies, including online
> services, to tell consumers what information is being collected, how it's
> being used, and provide an opportunity to opt out. (Tampa Tribune 8/15/94
> B&F 3)

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We need 'nyms with electronic reputations, and true electronic cash to
protect the "real" us from things like CompuTrace (not to mention the
USPS practice of selling to junk mailers whatever info you give them on
address change cards).

The alternative is yet another law...

I don't know whether to applaud the House bill, or curse.  Anyone have
the bill number?


Rich

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