Lotus drops database

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From: Steve Anderson
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1991 20:32

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> From: oleg@veritas.com (Oleg Kiselev)
> [...]
> Anyway, San Jose Mercury is reporting that after receiving over 30,000
> angry comments about their CD-ROM database of sensitive personal information
> on 120 million American households, Lotus has decided to not release
> the product.  The paper mentions that most of the people outraged were
> sophisticated computer users and priofessionals and civil libertarians.
> Among other things, USENET is mentioned as the prime vehicle for initiation
> of the continent-wide grass-roots campaign to protest Lotus' venture.
> 
> This is the first time, as far as I know, that USENET as a collective entity
> has managed to affect the way "real" world works.
-- 
-Steve A. Anderson         I do not speak officially for Locus or IBM, just me.
stevea@locus.com           uunet!lcc!stevea            lcc!stevea@seas.ucla.edu

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From: stevea@locus.com (Steve Anderson)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Lotus drops database
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Date: 25 Jan 91 20:32:34 GMT
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
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