Qwest Plan Stirs Protest Over Privacy

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.

Comments

Re:GET RICH QUICK!!!

[QuickFox]

Amazing! Two moderators have modded me down as offtopic without reading my post!

Maybe my joke is lame and unsuccessful, okay. But how can a joke about selling lists of phone calls be offtopic in a discussion about selling lists of phone calls?

Perhaps jokes on /. have to be much more obvious.

Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.

Re:what we really need

[foobar104]

What we really need is decent privacy legislation so that we don't have to opt out of these things.

I mean no offense, but whenever I hear the phrase, "What we really need is... legislation," it makes me want to head for the hills. Society is obviously teetering on the brink of collapse when people can say things like that with a straight face.

Re:The problem

[QuickFox]

and we'd need a corporation with a lot of money to get us an exemption from the law like that.

LOL! Mod parent up!

I thought it was a good joke :)

Thanks.

Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.