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[ILUG-Social] Opt-in spam could cost charities billions

[ILUG-Social] Opt-in spam could cost charities billions

kevin lyda kevin at suberic.net
Tue Feb 5 15:27:35 GMT 2002


On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:19:59PM +0000, Kathryn Cassidy wrote:
> I suspect that this is just an attempt by a US based direct marketing
> firm to discredit data protection style laws without actually looking
> at the evidence from countries where these laws operate.

exactly.  "we must protect the charities" smells an awful lot like
the cry "we must protect the children," that those people who find
the idea of censoring what everyone else reads (or snooping on them)
an exciting/moral thing to do.

kevin

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