On 2/14/06, Jon R. Kibler <Jon.Kibler@aset.com> wrote:
"A bill just announced in Congress would require every Web site operator to delete information about visitors, including e-mail addresses, if the data is no longer required for a "legitimate" business purpose.
Original posting from Declan McCullagh's PoliTech mailing list. Thought
"When no longer required for business purposes" Your syslog's logrotate function does that for you already, for all reasonable purposes .. blows away logs that are say a week old. Email addresses etc - I guess that's cookie data etc. Or any other data that you gather but dont state a purpose for .. if you gather data saying you want to market to them, fine. If you gather data like that as part of a profile on a blog, fine. No hassles that I can see there. This kind of checks privacy violations / abuse that goes on when data is collected without your knowledge, or used for purposes you didnt intend it to be used for but didnt read fine print, or the people collecting your data dont care about reselling it to others. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)