IP: follow-up on deja news

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:55:31 -0400
>From: David Rosensweig <dlrosens@sas.upenn.edu>
>Organization: University of Pennsylvania
>
>
>from >from Inter@ctive Week:
>
>Deja News executives told Smith the data logs are incidental, and that
>they have no intention of keeping the records for any purpose at all.
>But their very existence on Deja News servers gives Smith pause. For
>even if Deja News never organizes the data it has in a meaningful way,
>others could.
>
>With nothing more than a subpoena, police, lawyers representing
>plaintiffs in divorce cases or other civil suits -- even government
>agencies -- might demand those records, just as special prosecutor
>Kenneth Starr gained information about the bookstore purchases of Monica
>Lewinsky.
>
>"We don't know exactly what they're doing with those (addresses)," Smith
>said. "I think there are some real problems here. In some ways, I don't
>think they understand what they've created."
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2249764-1,00.html