IP: follow-up on deja news

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:55:31 -0400
> From: David Rosensweig <dlrosens () sas upenn edu>
> Organization: University of Pennsylvania
>
>
> from >from Inter@ctive Week:
>
> Deja News executives told Smith the data logs are incidental, and that
> they have no intention of keeping the records for any purpose at all.
> But their very existence on Deja News servers gives Smith pause. For
> even if Deja News never organizes the data it has in a meaningful way,
> others could.
>
> With nothing more than a subpoena, police, lawyers representing
> plaintiffs in divorce cases or other civil suits -- even government
> agencies -- might demand those records, just as special prosecutor
> Kenneth Starr gained information about the bookstore purchases of Monica
> Lewinsky.
>
> "We don't know exactly what they're doing with those (addresses)," Smith
> said. "I think there are some real problems here. In some ways, I don't
> think they understand what they've created."
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2249764-1,00.html