New York Sues Company in E-Mail Sale Case

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Yahoo! News (AP).

[snip]

A company accused of selling e-mails, in what may be the biggest deliberate breach of Internet privacy ever, has been 
sued by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Spitzer on Thursday accused Gratis Internet of selling personal information obtained from millions of consumers despite 
a promise of confidentiality. The consumers thought they were participating in a general marketing survey and often 
received free i-Pods music players or DVD movies and video games.

The civil suit was filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

[snip]

Article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060323/ap_on_hi_te/e_mail_privacy

Press release via N.Y. OAG:
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2006/mar/mar23a_06.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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