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Qwest Plan Stirs Protest Over Privacy

Posted by michael on from the panopticon dept.

gilroy writes: "The New York Times has an article (free registration required) about customer reaction to a recent mailing by Qwest. Although the mailer only describes their privacy policy as it currently exists, apparently it's caught a few people by surprise." This hit David Farber's IP list a few days ago: see the original message or the follow-up. As Brett Glass accurately notes, most people believe that information about who they call is protected by law.

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  1. We need an opt-out resource! by Tsar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What we need is some kind of clearing house of opt-out info, a la SpamCop, that would allow us to look up all the companies that we do business with and see what their real policies are. A nice feature would be the ability to generate legally binding letters of notification that we could send to those companies, preemptively opting out of all possible dissemination of our data.

    Is this already available, or is someone working on it? If not, I'll get busy. Comments and suggestions welcome!

  2. Opt-out number? by badvilbel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I called the number listed in the article to opt-out, and found it to be disconnected. Was the number transcribed wrong or is this further complication by Qwest? ;)