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Date: 2002-01-01

Qwest und die Verbindungsdaten


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Nicht nur für Law Enforcement sind die Verbindungsadten wertvoll, auch die
Verbinder selbst können damit Added Value lukrieren, wenn sie an
Tochterfirmen weitergeben, wer mit wem wann und vor allem wo verbunden
war.

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Some customers of Qwest Communications are angry over a pamphlet from
the company describing the ways that Qwest will use the customer's
personal data.
[...]

The company recently sent its customers a pamphlet similar to those
distributed last year by financial institutions, describing the ways that Qwest
will use the customer's personal data. Other telephone carriers will be
sending out notices as well, according to the Federal Communications
Commission.

But the breadth of the Qwest statement has privacy advocates upset. It says
that unless customers contact the company to prohibit the practice, Qwest
will share with its several subsidiaries such data as telephone services used,
billing information and places called.

"Friends and neighbors to whom I've spoken are simply incredulous about the
idea that what Qwest is doing could possibly be legal," said Brett Glass, a
technology consultant and author in Wyoming. He said the notice led him to
imagine invasions of privacy, like new floods of junk mail from travel agents
offering fares to the places that he calls. He said he was especially bothered
by passages in the notice that said that the company might share account
information with other companies "that have marketing agreements with us."

A Qwest spokesman explained that the privacy statement simply lays out
existing policies, and that the disclosures have all been approved by federal
courts. In 1999, the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in
Denver, overruled the Federal Communications Commission, which would
have only allowed such information to be shared if customers had given
explicit approval beforehand. "We went the extra mile" to inform consumers
of possible future moves by the company, said Taylor Gronbach, a
spokesman. He added that the company had not shared such information
with other businesses "and we have no plans to do it now." David L. Sobel,
general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington,
said he was surprised by the Qwest move. He said his organization favored
the commission's original "opt in" approach, which would have prohibited
companies from using consumers' data without their express permission.

Mehr
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20020101/tc/qwest_plan_stirs_protest_over
_privacy_1.html

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published on: 2002-01-01
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