On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:48:24PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
| Phil Howard [phil-spf-discuss(_at_)ipal(_dot_)net] wrote:
[snip]
| > Now I do support the idea of privacy, and I think that the US is
| > extremely weak on protecting privacy. But I also believe that the use
| > of my name is not a volation of privacy when it is divulged to me. If
| > the EU "protects" those who use other people's names in the context
| > where they are claiming to be that person, preventing the real name
| > owner from even being aware, then I'd say the EU has some serious
| > problems on the scale where violating the law is a just cause.
|
| I don't think the EU has some serious problems on the scale where violating
the law is a just cause. See above. ;-)
That depends on whether or not they consider a Designated Sender system to
be a privacy law violation. My point is, if they do, there's a problem.
If the EU law gets in the way of protecting against identity theft, then
at least in that aspect, it is a bad law.
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