Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Database Registration and privacy acts
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Fri, 17 May 91 14:38:29 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May17.143829.3504@looking.on.ca>
References: <1991May14.040427.10453@looking.on.ca> <JOHN.91May16231702@gna.axis-design.fr>

Actually, the real trick would be not to ignore it, but to organize full
compliance -- swamping them.    Problem is this probably costs money.

For example, I have hundreds of mail folders collecting mail I have
received and mail I have sent.   Megabytes of stuff which includes people
who have corresponded with me on certain topics.   This is a database of
people and their opinions.

My /etc/passwd is a database of people and their full names and addresses and
shells etc.   My filing cabinet is a paper version.

If people complied fully, you might get dozens or hundreds of databases
per person.  What would they do?
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
