It's really the issue of providing the fuel; aren't they providing the
actual Email address as well?
Karen
At 03:19 PM 8/25/1999 -0400, Kurt Metzmeier wrote:
>I perhaps am a bit paranoically challenged, but so long as this feature
>doesn't disclose anything lower than the domain-level, I can't see the
>violation of personal privacy here. Frankly, it seems far more tame than
>the common practice of magazine venders who sell my name and address coded
>by my political interests, hobbies, and personal interests. (If you want
>to test this assertion subscribe to both the Nation AND Human Events and
>see what shows up in your mailbox).
>
>I myself am a little more concerned at Amazon.com's somewhat lukewarm
>personal privacy policy where they aver that they do not "sell, trade, or
>rent your personal information to others" but they "may choose to do so in
>the future with trustworthy third parties, but you can tell us not to by
>sending a blank e-mail message to never@amazon.com." Advice: Send this
>email. They also note that "Amazon.com may provide aggregate statistics
>about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information
>to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no
>personally identifying information" -- which seems to me to be a common
>commercial practice.
>
>I can see where certain institutions may have a beef, although I was
>heartened to see that my fellow uky.edu'rs had decent taste in books and
>excellent taste in music (U2, Steve Earle, Ry Cooder).
>
>And, no, those weren't my last three purchases.
>
>KXM
>
>P.S. I did see that our fellow state university University of Louisville
>is buying up copies of The Prince
>by Niccolo Machiavelli. Mmmm, maybe THAT's why that they are making out so
>well getting funding from the governor...
>
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