Re: [IWAR] PRIVACY gamers' personal info copied

From: Mark Hedges (hedgesat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 23 1998 - 20:01:50 PDT

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    Hey, Anonymizer made the sidebar on that story:
    http://www.sjmercury.com/business/center/gamer042398.htm
    
    
    
    >Online gamers fume over information gathering
    >
    > BY DAVID L. WILSON
    > Mercury News Staff Writer
    >
    > A computer gaming company's admission that it had copied personal
    > information from consumers' computers via the Internet has set off
    > howls of outrage and panic among users and civil libertarians. Experts
    > say the incident underscores the ease with which information stored
    > on a home computer can be vacuumed up by anyone connected to
    > the same computer by a network.
    



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