FC: Is Spamcop selling its soul (and users' privacy) to top bidder?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:58:53 -0400
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
From: Neil Schwartzman <neil () peteMOSS com>
Subject: SpamCop Sends (sells?) User Reports to Cyveillance

This is the first post to a thread in USENET's infamous NANAE. Apparently, 
paying customers of SpamCop can opt-out permanently from sending these 
reports, freebie customers can do so on a message-by-message basis (I did 
NOT verify the former myself, since I do not use the SpamCop service for 
fundamental reason that their BL is so broken as to have listed several 
legitimate, non-spammed email lists, the names of which come to mind at 
present ;-> )

http://www.cyveillance.com/

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From: John Phillips <jhphillips180.insert. () hotmail com>
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: Has SpamCop Sold Its Soul To Cyveillance?
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 19:30:20 EDT

SpamCop has started sending copies of all of its reports by default to 
Cyveillance. Paying members are now able to opt out after many complaints 
were made. Purportedly, Cyveillance will use the reports to check for 
copyright infringement for its clients. Cyveillance has clearly stated that 
it mines web sites for e-mail addresses to also sell to its clients. 
Cyveillance is paying for the service. Has Julian sold his soul to the Devil?

Regards,

John Phillips

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