Re: WWW privacy and confidentiality

Thomas -- not Tom -- Maslen (tmaslen@verity.com)
Sun, 22 Jan 1995 04:21:02 +0100

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> Putting up a WWW server is in some very real sense equivalent to opening a
> store for business. In a litiginous society, any ofering of public
> services is accompanied by some risk of attracting adverse legal action.
> It might be a good idea for WWW providers to get (and share?) some legal
> advice on these issues.

.. or, if the climate within the US gets just too silly, think about
electronically moving offshore (what do those first two W's stand for,
again?). What's the going price on a T3 in Liberia, Panama or the Cayman
Islands, anyway?

Thomas
tmaslen@verity.com My opinions, not Verity's

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