Date: Mon, 24 May 93 17:09:52 EST Errors-To: Comp-privacy Error Handler From: Computer Privacy Digest Moderator To: Comp-privacy@PICA.ARMY.MIL Subject: Computer Privacy Digest V2#045 Computer Privacy Digest Mon, 24 May 93 Volume 2 : Issue: 045 Today's Topics: Moderator: Dennis G. Rears Electronic Fingerprinting [Cristy: Credit Card without SSN] Re: Redistribution of E-Mail attained via research Right or Wrong? Re: Redistribution of E-Mail attained via research Right or Wrong? P.O. Boxes The Computer Privacy Digest is a forum for discussion on the effect of technology on privacy. The digest is moderated and gatewayed into the USENET newsgroup comp.society.privacy (Moderated). Submissions should be sent to comp-privacy@pica.army.mil and administrative requests to comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil. Back issues are available via anonymous ftp on ftp.pica.army.mil [129.139.160.133]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steven J Masover Subject: Electronic Fingerprinting Date: 20 May 1993 03:58:37 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Dear netters, I would like info on Electronic Fingerprinting please. Could someone please point me in a pertinent direction. I would like to know about current capabilities, latest developments, EDS, the AFIRM and Match System, War/Horror stories, etc. etc. I am particularly interested in anything to do with the fingerprinting of General Assistance recipients (As has been happening in Alameda since February of this year and as is proposed for San Francisco. It has been in place in Los Angeles since 1991). Thanking ye in advance, yours, Michael Stack (Please direct replies to me at "stack@starnine.com" for it is not often that I'm to be found up on this ledge). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 93 16:22:57 EDT From: Brinton Cooper cc: Cristy Subject: [Cristy: Credit Card without SSN] Organization: The US Army Research Laboratory Cristy writes that she just received her first VISA card w/o submitting her SSN: > I applied > to over 10 different offers I got in the mail. They all turned me down > because I did not submit my SSN except for one. Perhaps this is because the issuer already had her SSN? _Brint ------------------------------ From: Penio Penev Subject: Re: Redistribution of E-Mail attained via research Right or Wrong? Reply-To: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu Organization: Rockefeller University Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 01:10:10 GMT On 19 May 1993 03:08:07 GMT Richard Roda (roda@canton.cs.unca.edu) wrote: | hauben@cs.columbia.edu (Michael Hauben) writes: | : In conducting research on the Net, I have often gotten requests | : from people who would like me to forward to them the private | : e-mail responses I have gotten via e-mail. What do people think | : about this? I usually have waited until I have finished the paper | [remainder deleted] | I will not foward an E-mail message from another person. However, if part | of an Email message is a copy of a public file/document (such as a friend | sending me a game he found via anonymous ftp), I will resend the part | that is public, since the fact that such information is public is not | changed by the form that I recieved it in. A good practice, when conducting research and promising a summary to the net, is to include in the original request for information an additional request to the authors of email for granting you the right to include their mails in a summary. In addition to that, a good practice is to explicitly grant/not grant rights for including your email in a summary, where you feel, that the information may be useful for doing so. -- Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu Disclaimer: All oppinions are mine. ------------------------------ From: Bryan Pfaffenberger Subject: Re: Redistribution of E-Mail attained via research Right or Wrong? Organization: University of Virginia Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 19:10:21 GMT References: >: In conducting research on the Net, I have often gotten requests >: from people who would like me to forward to them the private >: e-mail responses I have gotten via e-mail. What do people think >: about this? I usually have waited until I have finished the paper >[remainder deleted] > I go to the net with research questions, but I would absolutely, *never, never* comply with a request to forward messages I have received. A fundamental obligation of any researcher is to protect the privacy and anonymity of one's correspondents or interview subjects. Disclosure of their names and use of their private expression require their express written permission after full disclosure of the use to which the information will be put. This is pretty much the standard ethic in scholarship--at least, the scholarship I was taught. Hope this helps. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Bryan Pfaffenberger|bp@virginia.edu|compuserve 72164,117 --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy,alt.privacy From: pbray@reed.edu Subject: P.O. Boxes Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 21:43:00 GMT Does anyone know what type of information one needs to supply to get a P.O. Box. I mean, does one need to give name, home address and so forth. Can you rent a box anonymously? Also, if this is not the case, under what circumstances would the workers of the P.O. Box give out this information? Finally, does anyone know the monthly cost of a P.O. Box? Peter [Moderator's Note: You generally need name and address. They will take your address and mail you a confirmation card. You than take this card and present it to the PO. They will then give your box. I pay $14 every 6 months for mine. I think they have to give your name and address to anyone who requests it. ._dennis ] -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- ------------------------------ End of Computer Privacy Digest V2 #045 ******************************