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Technology Stocks : Peapod (PPOD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: IEarnedIt who wrote (827)	3/18/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: Wolff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1170

Yes, I see what you are saying, and it appears unless they have a nasty legal team the data to be sold, will be not include a name, but it will be specific to certain buyers. Profile JDOE eat no vegitable but does buy crackers and beer. He takes this long to decide and buys these things together. Question is a "browser cookie" considered personal information. Will they give out information based on known cookies and profiles within the browser. Do you get the idea I don't like databases collecting data on individuals and choices. I understand the need to understand inventory and how fast it is consumed, but PPOD is going farther. Can this data be demanded by the courts and investigators. Yes. Has this been done to Video stores on rental pattern yes. I am not encouraged by the company saying the will be doing intensive data collecting on customers. Call me a wimp but it concerns me. I wrote a law about 10 years ago, (well drafted a bill on my computer) that would simply say. "If data is sold concerning a specific individual, the cost of the service must include and require the sending of the sold data and the requestor's name....to the person from whom the data is collected and concerning" Wolff's Law......I still think it should exist! Lastly, PPOD charges $15 bucks per delivery.