Author: stuart taylor
Date: 07:55:10 06/30/00
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On June 30, 2000 at 09:43:29, blass uri wrote: >On June 30, 2000 at 07:57:09, robert michelena wrote: > >>This nonsense about posting real names made me wonder if this august body >>realizes that by posting the real names of individuals, they may be violating >>federal law. >> >>For instance, are they certain the individuals are truly adults?? There is a >>federal act that makes it illegal to post information concerning minors. >> >>Secondly, apparantly there is a possibility that those of us who signed on where >>not informed properly that our real names were going to be posted online. I >>don't necessarily have a problem with that, but I do know that I did not notice >>this fact when signing on. >> >>If I were the CCC I would seriously look into this issue of privacy. There are >>many instances of people going to court for violation of their privacy. > >I think that the moderators have the right not to allow people to post if they >do not give their real name. >I do not see it as something against privacy. > >I do not know the federal law that you talk about but I am sure that there are >people from many countries when the law is not relevant for them. > >I did not hear about cases in Israel when people went to court for violation of >their privacy. > >Uri Beleive me, I would have liked to have done that once, when the Israeli police clamped down on me at the airport because I was feeling tired and very on edge, about being too late for my flight. I didn't really enjoy what I had to go through. Israel isn't exactly the best example! Shimon Taylor Israel
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