Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Does it mean that if I want to download software -- like Sybase or Oracle, dev. version -- from the Internet in which I have to provide my personal information on their websites, basically the procedure is unlawful. Or there _is_ a difference between

Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-04-08 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, David Wright wrote: What I'm telling you is that that is not all right. I'm sure you'll be able to turn up references to our Data Protection Act (the old and the new) on the web. You may be surprised by them. Does it mean that if I want to download software -- like Sybase

Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-04-07 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote: You may well fall foul of the Data Protection Act at least in Europe. I think I didn't say that apt-get would _automatically_ grab whatever info available on your systems; I said that if a user put his/her info on a file, then apt-get would send it's

Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-04-07 Thread Oki DZ
Don't you tired of: Y OS is used on 85% of desktop systems, and a week ^^^ ck..ck.. my English needs continuous polishing... Oki

Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-04-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote: You may well fall foul of the Data Protection Act at least in Europe. I think I didn't say that apt-get would _automatically_ grab whatever info available on your systems; I said that if a user put his/her info

Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm wondering whether it'd be useful to keep track of Debian users who download the packages via apt-get (from the main site)? I think it would; suppose you can have a list of the users with their information like: names, email addresses, cities,