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by Sheila Lennon
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May 28, 2002 • Today's weblog

Wrestling privacy rights for Net users: Some of today's spam in my inbox begins with ADV: making it easy to filter straight to the trash. Thanks to Gov. Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, who has signed the nation's first online privacy bill, we'll be seeing a lot more of this come March, 2003: Ventura Signs Online Privacy, Spam Bill. Among its provisions: Internet Service Providers must alert their Minnesota-based subscribers before disclosing to marketers information such as users' e-mail addresses, home addresses, telephone numbers, and which sites their users visit. ISPs also must tell why they are disclosing the information.
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