[address-policy-wg] RIPE DB: disclosure of commertial information

Public records are wonderful, as they gives us ordinary people the 
possibility to check up on the folks we elect into government :-)
But offcourse these could be missused. More importantly you guys should 
pass some legislation on harvesting public records, for marketing 
material. I'm no way a legal expert, but that seems more resonable.

We got something simmular in Sweden called offentlighetsprincipen.
Basicly all material passing a government agency are put in the public 
records.
We could even look up if someone have been convicted of a fellony, and 
read court documents.
And offcourse look up annual income, and get pictures of the person, if 
he/she applied for a passport.

Cheers!

--Dennis Lundström
   GippNET AB, Stockholm Sweden

Max Tulyev wrote:

>Hi!
>
>New cup of gas on that fire ;)
>
>There is new database released: all bank transactions in Russia, IV quarter of 
>2004 (this is update to exist database from April 2003). It costs only $100 
>(source:  
>http://top.rbc.ru/index.shtml?/news/policy/2005/05/20/20100238_bod.shtml). 
>You can use it with RIPE DB and even see how much certain client pays for 
>connection...
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>>On Thu, 12 May 2005 17:11:21 +0400
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>>Max Tulyev <president at ukraine.su> wrote:
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>>>If my satisfied client will receive a tons of offers from other peoples
>>>just because of I show him in open database - it is really good???
>>>
>>>Is it really good for me to look up the database and send that offers to
>>>others?
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't think that it's good for you to be a spammer :))
>>But, if you wish to send UCE to "target auditory", you can also find this
>>"target auditory" from many over sources then RIPE DB.:) If your customer
>>exists in RIPE DB, or if it has meaningfull PTR records on used
>>addresses,it isn't gives someone advantage in stealing this customer from
>>you.
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