NODE 017b6b1fRe: Children's Privacy Act
"E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>Mon, 27 May 1996 15:48:52 +0800
From: IN%"bruce@aracnet.com" "Bruce Baugh" 26-MAY-1996 17:00:35.76
>Righ. But in addition to the forcible acquisition of information, there's
>the unwitting acquisition - you are never informed that party A has
>transmitted information X to party B, who in turn passed it to C, who
>garbled it and then passed the erroneous info to D....
Assume that they're gathering all information they can, unless they
make a specific agreement that they aren't doing so. Some magazines have that
as part of their subscriptions - they state that they only exchange mailing
list with certain other parties, wh have agreed that they won't transmit it
further; these magazines (e.g., Consumer Reports) also tend to give people an
opt-out option on even this exchange, incidentally.
-Allen