From: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 95 18:46:29 PDT
To: Jon Mittelhauser <jonm@netscape.com>
Subject: Re: Netscape and privacy
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With all respect to you and to Netscape (I am one who thinks that the
Netscape participation on this list has reflected very well on the
participants and the company), I think that the reply "we only collect IP
addresses" is not fully responsive to the issue.  While I recognize that
there are implementations that assign a new IP address to every login, I
understand the current norm to be static IP addresses.  I sure have one. 
Thus, if you keep a file of my IP address, and a fact about that address,
you have a database that can be purchased and correllated with another DB,
which links IP to somehting else, eg telephone numbers (perhaps from a
contest run on the internet?).  Pretty soon we are at serious
profiling.... 

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