http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5137488.html Treasury breaks word on e-mail anonymity Last modified: January 8, 2004, 11:06 AM PST By Declan McCullagh The U.S. Treasury Department plans to publish nearly 10,000 e-mail addresses on the Web, violating its privacy promise to Americans who used e-mail to comment on a government proceeding. In March 2003, the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) asked for e-mail comments about a proposal that could raise the price of malt beverages like Bacardi Breezer and Smirnoff Ice. At the time, the Department said that the text of comments would made public--but assured people that e-mail addresses, home addresses and other personal information of individuals would be removed first. [...] By October, the Treasury Department had received about 9,900 e-mail messages, plus 4,800 comments sent through the U.S. mail or fax--and decided it could no longer keep its promise. [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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