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New York Sues Company in E-Mail Sale Case
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:24:40 GMT
Via Yahoo! News (AP). [snip] A company accused of selling e-mails, in what may be the biggest deliberate breach of Internet privacy ever, has been sued by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer on Thursday accused Gratis Internet of selling personal information obtained from millions of consumers despite a promise of confidentiality. The consumers thought they were participating in a general marketing survey and often received free i-Pods music players or DVD movies and video games. The civil suit was filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. [snip] Article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060323/ap_on_hi_te/e_mail_privacy Press release via N.Y. OAG: http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2006/mar/mar23a_06.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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