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EC Data Privacy....
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:40:39 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Mike O'Dell <mo () ccr org> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:48:43 -0500 (EST) To: <dave () farber net> Subject: EC Data Privacy.... remember Back When, well over a decade ago, when the EC adopted stringent controls on the retention of personal data and on what could be done with it? remember how US interests, including the US Governement, had screaming fits about how these regulations were pointless and unnecessary and would be a horrible burden, not to mention provoke male pattern baldness? and now we have the same contingent of miscreants trying to mollify the victims by trying to convince them it's somwhow *their* problem that personal data about them has been grossly misused for someone else's profit. chalk-up one big point for those clever Europeans. nothing like having the foresight to get in front of a problem rather than waiting for it to become a sucking chest wound. harumph -mo ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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