Previous Politech message: "Jim Harper replies to AccuCard service, privacy invasion, marketing" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04840.html FYI Corex==Cardscan.net==Accucard. -Declan --- From: "Weyman, Peter" <Weymanat_private> To: "'Jim Harper - Privacilla.org'" <jim.harperat_private>, declanat_private Cc: hmurrayat_private Subject: RE: AccuCard Service: More privacy invasion (and viral marketing? ) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:33:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Jim: Thank you for sending this on. Just to be very clear, Corex: . will *never* rent or sell your personal information to any other party. . will *never* rent or sell the personal information of your business contacts. · will *never* use your personal information, or that of your contacts in a way that we don't tell you about *before* you give us the information. You make a good point about our privacy statement, and I'll endeavor to have the statement updated to make it very clear that: /i/ we will use information only in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected, and /ii/ we will provide ample notice if a change is made. Regards, Peter. Peter J Weyman Vice President, R&D Corex Technologies Corp. Cambridge, MA 02139 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Harper - Privacilla.org [<mailto:jim.harperat_private>mailto:jim.harperat_private] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:20 PM To: declanat_private Cc: hmurrayat_private; privacyat_private Subject: RE: AccuCard Service: More privacy invasion (and viral marketing?) Declan: As we've seen, there are security risks when data is centralized, but the privacy problem here is not with AccuCard. It is with Hal Murray's friend, who entrusted information about him to AccuCard in violation of Hal's personal privacy policy. AccuCard's privacy statement is industry standard, and pretty good. Key part: "Corex Technologies will not sell, share, rent or license your personal information. Corex does not give out personally identifiable information collected from our users to others. The foregoing policy is subject to Corex Technologies' obligation to release information pursuant to judicial or other governmental subpoenas warrants or orders." [It also has industry standard weaknesses: "Corex Technologies reserves the right to amend this policy at any time. Any changes or amendments to the policy will be posted on our website." The policy should state clearly that changes will only apply to data collected after the policy change, and it should commit to substantial (by e-mail, perhaps) notice of policy changes.] I can see both the security concerns and the benefits these services (there are a number) hold out. I have several friends who use these services, and I have found that it neither bothers me, nor pleases me. I do not regard it as a privacy threat, much less invasion, for my friends and colleagues to enter basic contact information about me into an online address book. Whether these services catch on will depend in part on whether the privacy preferences of people like me or people like Hal predominate. There's no right or wrong in a subjective area like this. It will be interesting to watch cultural norms in this corner of the online world develop. Jim Harper Editor Privacilla.org --- To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Cc: Hal Murray <hmurrayat_private> Subject: AccuCard Service: More privacy invasion (and viral marketing?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:33:10 -0700 From: Hal Murray <hmurrayat_private> Are you aware of Cardscan.net and their AccuCard Service? Info at www.cardscan.net. I recently received email from a friend, or rather from cardscan.net on behalf of my friend asking me to update my info. It seems as though there is one more company in the business of collecting info on everybody. Cardscan makes software and hardware for keeping track of business cards. Seems like a good idea. But they let you keep your info about me on their web site. Great. Just what I wanted. Another company I didn't even know about keeping track of me. When you update your contact information, your updates will be communicated back to me, as well as any other users of the service that already know you (they already have your email address and a portion of your contact information). This saves you time and effort, and ensures that all your contacts have your latest information. This service is secure and private. Right. I wonder when some emarketer will figure out how to take advantage of it. Or headhunters if the economy gets going again. I wonder when this will get tied into C/R systems. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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