1995-09-13 - Re: Whitehouse “dissident” web site monitoring?

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From: hallam@w3.org
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: hallam@w3.org
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 95 21:03:34 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Whitehouse "dissident" web site monitoring?
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>What abuse?  Is there an expectation of privacy in Web-world,
>such that all users can honestly expect that a site is compelled
>to keep its "visitor log" private?

Absolutely, just as there is an assumption that private email will not be 
distributed over USEnet.

There is a clear expectation of privacy. Just as the user of a USEnet server has 
an expectation of privacy. The question of what is legitimate to use log file 
data for is a very keenly debated one at W3 conferences.


	Phill H-B





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