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Date: 2002-01-01
Qwest und die Verbindungsdaten-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Verbinder selbst können damit Added Value lukrieren, wenn sie an Tochterfirmen weitergeben, wer mit wem wann und vor allem wo verbunden war. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 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 -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2002-01-01 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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