"I have never ever heard of one case of misuse of collected consumer information. Ad companies could care less about that, that's like selling porno to kids, it's not ethical AND there's no money in it." There are several companies whose sole business is to sell addresses and phone numbers of consumers. How far do you have to stretch your imagination to see the worth of a list of people with a known interest. The concern here, I think is that this data is indeed valuable, and *WILL* be sold. There are benign uses like selling this data to companies who will be nice and give you discounts, but there are also malignant uses like selling this information to private investigation services or to companies or organizations with questionable agendas.
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"I have never ever heard of one case of misuse of collected consumer information. Ad companies could care less about that, that's like selling porno to kids, it's not ethical AND there's no money in it." There are several companies whose sole business is to sell addresses and phone numbers of consumers. How far do you have to stretch your imagination to see the worth of a list of people with a known interest. The concern here, I think is that this data is indeed valuable, and *WILL* be sold. There are benign uses like selling this data to companies who will be nice and give you discounts, but there are also malignant uses like selling this information to private investigation services or to companies or organizations with questionable agendas.
Isn't it lovely when the goverment actually works in accordance with the constitution rather than against it.
Seems that BeOS is the new darling of pop media. Probably in Sun's best interest to develop it on Be first.