From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 06:35:33 +0800
To: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Children's Privacy Act
Message-ID: <199605260449.VAA29497@cygnus.com>
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On 25 May 1996 08:37:24 pdt, bruce@aracnet.com wrote:

>At 11:34 PM 5/24/96 -0700, tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:
>
>>If I have compiled records, dossiers, etc., as I most assuredly have (got
>>to fill up those MO disks with something), this is "my" information. Mine
>>in the sense that others can't dictate to me what I do with it.
>
>I don't see that this is necessarily true for information any more than it
>is property. Property can be bought, sold, traded, given away, made...but it
>can also be stolen. Just as I have a right to complain if you walk off with
>my couch without my permission, so if you walk off with data on my blood
>chemistry or credit history without my permission.

Yes. For instance, a photographer should get a release for a photo of a person, 
particularly if he plans to resell it. It does make me wonder whether you could file a suit 
against TRW for selling information about you, particularly since it could affect you 
adversely and there is no guaruntee it is accurate.
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