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"Eric Thomas (CERN)" <ERIC@CEARN> |
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Sat, 2 Apr 88 17:18:01 GVA |
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Your message of Sat, 2 Apr 88 07:20:12 MEZ |
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Question: what is the difference between "Review= Owner" (the DB0TUI11
setting) and "Review= Public", from the point of view of the lawyer? If
the information stored on the server cannot be distributed because it is
private, then the only persons who are allowed to access it are:
1. The registered individual himself.
2. The contracted person who is responsible for the operation of the
service. You, as a contracted employee of TUI Berlin, are allowed to
access this data. If you misuse it, your employer can fire you, or the
german justice can sue you.
Mister X, as the owner of list XXX-L, has also access to this
information. He lives in a country where there is no law about this kind
of information distribution. Therefore, he can freely distribute the
information he got from your server to anybody in this country, while
still keeping on the safe side of the law. Your employer cannot fire him.
You, Thomas Habernoll, are responsible for letting this suspicious Mister
X access the aforesaid confidential information. Therefore you shall be
held responsible by the lawyers for any abuse he might do.
All of the above was said with tongue in cheek, of course. I was just
trying to show Thomas that one has to carry one's own logic to its utmost
end :-)
Eric
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