Primrose
October 8th, 2003, 09:31 PM
This might help
:o
James "Kibo" Parry is funny...he started this thread on 2003-10-01.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22g6589dcs.nyc2.aens+.net/DCS000003_6D4Q/&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=kibo-0110030518280001%4010.0.1.2&rnum=1
Fact is..all this was know back in June 2003.
-----Original Message-----
From: lula-bounces at lula.org [mailto:lula-bounces at lula.org] On Behalf Of Peter Benjamin
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 2:03 PM
To: lula at lula.org; uuasc at uuasc.org
Subject: [Lula] DoNotCall.gov has AT&T set a cookie upon confirmation
My hackles are up. My privacy has been violated by this
federal department, and I am spreading the word. I want this abuse stopped, particularly as AT&T appears to be the web site setting the cookie, not the federal department.
Below is my written complaint just submitted to the FTC.
Notice the g6589dcs in the image domain name... is this
an unique identifier? I think so!
Their privacy policy at URL:
http://donotcall.gov/DNC/privacy/privacy.aspx
states:
* We do not use "cookies" or tracking mechanisms that collect personally identifying information on our sites.
Sure that is true, as they are letting AT&T set the cookie.
AN OUTRAGED CITIZEN
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I received an email to confirm my phone number for no telemarketer calling me. The link provided in the email lend to a web page that requested a cookie be set on my computer.
This cookie is explicitly against the privacy policy of DoNot Call.gov as on their privacy policy web page. In addition, the cookie was not set directly by their website, but inside the webpage at the link provided in the email was a HTML image reference to a web site of a commercial telephone company, AT&T as documented below.
This lack of privacy from is ***appalling*** and gross violation of my privacy. Please contact the government department responsible for the DoNotCall.gov and have AT&T's presence removed from their web pages, and have AT&T delete all log records. Please email me upon receipt of this complaint, and subsequently and in a timely way provide me with the selected solution details. Thank you.
<noscript>
<img BORDER="0" NAME="DCSIMG" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1"
SRC="http://g6589dcs.nyc2.aens.net/DCS000003_6D4Q/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascri
pt">
</noscript>
Now "Kibo" and the wacky Register are trying to make some press time on it..but.
Sat Jun 28 15:02:43 PDT 2003
Most cookies disclose absolutely nothing about you. The privacy statement includes the statement "personally identifying information".
Flying off the handle about a simple session cookie used to move people between forms, is not only a waste of time, but when approached as you have done in this case, will probably only serve to damage your own credibility and the credibility of anyone else you might incite into joining your half baked cause.
Perhaps it is just a matter of difference in approach, but if I had found something I believed was a technical privacy concern, I might do a bit of research, and/or present it to forums not unlike this one so that others could provide additional analysis and a second opinion before I started making inflammatory pronouncements, or firing off flame mail to the supposed "culprits" in the federal government, especially when their technology is in service of such a tremendously overdue program as the one they have put in place to get people off the harassment lists of desperate telemarketing companies.
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;)
Bottom line now is that the do not call list is real..and heavy fines for any company who violates YOU.