What if someone breaks into their site and steals your information? Might
you sue them? I think they, as a business, need to cover such
possibilities and so have to state it on their site.
Specifically, you must have missed the following section:
7. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE US
What do you think has keep James Bond in martini cash all of these
years? Espionage has a long, long history.
Welcome to physical security.
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What if someone breaks into their site and steals your information? Might
you sue them? I think they, as a business, need to
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Burton M. Strauss III [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Security-Basics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Privacy Policy - we don't need no 'stinking privacy
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:59:31 -0700 (PDT)
What if someone breaks into their site and steals your information? Might
you sue them
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Cc: Burton M. Strauss III; Security-Basics
Subject: Re: Privacy Policy - we don't need no 'stinking privacy
What do you think has keep James Bond in martini cash all of these
years? Espionage has a long, long history.
Welcome to physical security.
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What if someone
Dennis - you may be right that it's probably a CYA. But I think any web
site also needs to be aware of the sensitivity of the data and take
appropriate measures. Which they're explicitly saying they don't. If you
read up on the European data privacy directives - see for example
: Thursday, July 24, 2003 4:56 PM
To: Security-Basics
Subject: Privacy Policy - we don't need no 'stinking privacy
1. CONFIDENTIALITY
Your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by
us. We shall not
be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer
as a result
As far as Clause 1 is concerned, there is no way for them to guarantee that someone
hasn't placed a keystroke logger or some trojan on your machine. If your machine isn't
secure, your use of their website isn't confidential.
John
In a message dated 7/25/2003 3:28:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
The wife and I are booked on a Holland America cruise. The travel agent
asked me to visit their web site and do some basic data entry for the line.
There's a form (see https://www.hollandamerica.com/tahq/pdf/Immigration.pdf)
to give them a bunch of personal information.
I'm assuming this is the
