ADMIN: Privacy issues

[borg3892000 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26602

I fail to see how my response was being "bitchy with the 
moderators".  At the most, I was being peeved with yahoo, as well as 
myself for relaxing.

What are we afraid of, you ask?  How about a situation such as 
egghead.com, where they sold their customer information to another 
company for whatever use they wanted?  How about one of the 
netherland countries that recently sold the rights of EVERYONE'S 
genetic information to a single company?

Do you really think information isn't abused?  I don't want to start 
a flame, but you are naive if you believe that the information you 
posted on a public board is safe and won't be used.

It doesn't matter whether I am ashamed of my political, sexual, or 
religious beliefs or not.  It's a matter of privacy.

"If you aren't hiding something, then why are you afraid to let me 
search your house?"

Constant Vigilance.


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., lotusmoondragon at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 9/21/2001 3:47:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> borg3892000 at y... writes:
> 
> 
> > This is just ducky.
> > 
> > So any response we have made to these polls is now freely 
available 
> > to Yahoo for any purpose they want.
> > 
> > I can't find anything in the polls help that describes how to 
unvote. 
> > Deleting my user account might do it though.
> 
> Normally, I'm pretty quite about this, but I just have to ask - 
What the hell 
> are you all afraid of??
> 
> I for one I am neither ashamed of my religion (Wicca), my sexuality 
> (bi-sexual) nor my political inclination (moderate tending left). 
And of what 
> use is to Yahoo anyway? Even if they do have the information, how 
the hell 
> would they use it?
> 
> Lighten up, folks. And stop getting all bitchy with the moderators. 
They do a 
> great job.
> 
> Love,
> Lotus
> 
> 
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