[Remember that a U.S. passport does not show your home address... --Declan] --- Subject: Privacy Policy - Buildings Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:06:44 -0400 From: "Trotter, Frank" <Frank.Trotter@private> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@private> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This group and many other spend a lot of time considering the privacy issues surrounding the online community. A corollary that I haven't seen come up is the practice of collecting what seems to be a significant amount of personal information at the entry to buildings, especially in New York and other large cities. While the practice is uneven across the country, it is growing. I need to enter these building to conduct meetings. At the same time I worry about issues ranging from the traditional fear that someone now clearly knows I am out of town, has my address, and with an accomplice can organize a robbery (also the old-time ruse when collecting a phone number on a credit card receipt), identity theft using the data, and dissemination of any data collected without my permission or knowledge. I don't even know who the people collecting my information work for, or who owns the computer and the database where the information is dutifully stored. => Is there any current regulation for the collection of this information (I certainly don't lean toward regulation but it would be nice to know)? => Does anyone on this list work in a building where this is done; if so what is you company's policy? => How long is this information retained and who has access? All the best, FOT Frank Trotter President - Everbank Check out three time Forbes "Best of the Web" award winner http://www.everbank.com These comments are personal messages and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Everbank. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBP3Rqjac6Jcu2sioFEQIBdgCeI43bonG622YkbqPa1VfeDWLGYt4AniNg 54wRDULCOsvkHMdQtJhEa3n1 =7h1E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Click into www.everbank.com for better banking - ranked "Best of the Web" by Forbes magazine, 2000, 2001, & 2002. ------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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