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Offline Furball

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« on: February 08, 2005, 01:02:02 PM »
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm

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An Act to make new provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to individuals, including the obtaining, holding, use or disclosure of such information.



I heard today that the US has no such law to prohibit the use of someone's details (address etc) without their permission, is this true?

Was very suprised when i got told, there must be some sort of law over there to stop it?


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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2005, 01:06:28 PM »
In the USA, the various DMVs (the people who handle licensing of vehicles) sell their databases to companies for marketing.  In California, your fingerprint is taken when you get your drivers license.  Since there's no way to 'opt out' from the marketing data sale, I'm concerned that electronic copies of my fingerprint would be floating around as a result of this sale.  While it might not mean anything today with current technology, there's no reason it might not be valuable/useful to the wrong people five or ten years from now.

I hate the idea of adding new laws, but in lieu of having ways to control how companies/government use your personal data....  it bears consideration.
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2005, 01:08:22 PM »
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In the USA, the various DMVs (the people who handle licensing of vehicles) sell their databases to companies for marketing.  In California, your fingerprint is taken when you get your drivers license.  Since there's no way to 'opt out' from the marketing data sale, I'm concerned that electronic copies of my fingerprint would be floating around as a result of this sale.  While it might not mean anything today with current technology, there's no reason it might not be valuable/useful to the wrong people five or ten years from now.

I hate the idea of adding new laws, but in lieu of having ways to control how companies/government use your personal data....  it bears consideration.


So there is not?  i am pretty shocked to know that.  Basically the conversation which started all this was about junk e-mail and that the vast majority (if not all) is from the USA, and this is because of not having a data protection type law.
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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2005, 03:54:03 PM »
So much for the land of the free...
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2005, 04:02:30 PM »
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In the USA, the various DMVs (the people who handle licensing of vehicles) sell their databases to companies for marketing.  In California, your fingerprint is taken when you get your drivers license.  Since there's no way to 'opt out' from the marketing data sale, I'm concerned that electronic copies of my fingerprint would be floating around as a result of this sale.  While it might not mean anything today with current technology, there's no reason it might not be valuable/useful to the wrong people five or ten years from now.

I hate the idea of adding new laws, but in lieu of having ways to control how companies/government use your personal data....  it bears consideration.


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« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2005, 05:17:13 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2005, 05:23:31 PM »
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So there is not?  i am pretty shocked to know that.  Basically the conversation which started all this was about junk e-mail and that the vast majority (if not all) is from the USA, and this is because of not having a data protection type law.


Are you talking about who originates it or where (physically) it's coming from?
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2005, 05:54:54 PM »
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In the USA, the various DMVs (the people who handle licensing of vehicles) sell their databases to companies for marketing.  In California, your fingerprint is taken when you get your drivers license.  Since there's no way to 'opt out' from the marketing data sale, I'm concerned that electronic copies of my fingerprint would be floating around as a result of this sale.  While it might not mean anything today with current technology, there's no reason it might not be valuable/useful to the wrong people five or ten years from now.

I hate the idea of adding new laws, but in lieu of having ways to control how companies/government use your personal data....  it bears consideration.


LOL .. so finger prints are useless as reliable identification or security element overthere. Arent they ?

thx for explanation
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