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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Date: July 5, 2005 9:01:49 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] any info more on looks like IP may suffer also


David Farber wrote, forwarding a message from David Lesher:

Let's look to some existing experience for a guide.
The EU has Data Protection laws, and has had for some time.
How are they handling mailing lists?


I spoke with Senate Judiciary committee staff on Friday and they said they weren't trying to mirror the Data Protection Directive, so I'm not sure this question is relevant.

But if a future hypothetical bill were to mirror the Directive, we can look at the research of Jacob Palme, a professor of computer science at Stockholm University (http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/). Jacob has documented some of it has been used (abused) against churchgoer websites, dog owner websites, search engines, anti-bank activists, and animal rights activists:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01218.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01532.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01165.html

More on Senate Judiciary's defense of the proposal:
http://news.com.com/The+coming+Web+security+woes/ 2010-1071_3-5772012.html

-Declan


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