Matt Blatchley wrote:
>
> The Web metrics program I'm using tracks the usual...ipaddress, country,
> state, ISP, keyword/search engine, and site path of the user as they go from
> page to page within a site. This is all fine, but two different people have
> told me that once I match up the st
If you sell the collected sales data to someone else and didn't
disclose this in your PP (er... thats Privacy Policy ) you've got a
customer service problem (i.e. customers will never do business with
you when you get caught). If you do that in certain U.S. industries
(mostly related to finance-re
Matt Blatchley wrote:
> Any particular reason why you would consider it not a good practice?
Well, for one thing, IP != user. For example, if I browse here at work,
my IP matches that of 5 other users. If I browse from a dial-up
connection, the IP I have today may have been someone else's yest
ly no authority on
morality, but that is what I have been told and is how it has been
explained to me.
--Ferg
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From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 11:30 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Legal or Not Legal?
Illegal if
The user is unaware that th
Illegal if
The user is unaware that the info is being collected and how it may be used. You have to at the very least spell this stuff out in a privacy policy for the site
Legal if...
The user is aware the data is being collected and it's possible uses
I'm no lawyer...but that seems like a r
something "bad"? Now is it illegal, or is it only illegal
if I were to use that information to market to them?
Thanks for the response :)
Matt
- Original Message -
From: Ben Doom
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: Legal or Not Legal?
I've ne
I've never heard of it violating laws, but it violates many sites'
privacy policy. I'm assuming it doesn't violate yours, in which case
(AFAIK) it's legal but not necessarily a good practice.
--Ben
Matt Blatchley wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Recently I talked to a few different people and we'
Hey folks,
Recently I talked to a few different people and we've been debating back
and forth about the legal issues associated with tracking users and the
information about the user.
The Web metrics program I'm using tracks the usual...ipaddress, country,
state, ISP, keyword/search engin
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