Ross Brunson wrote: > In other words, that agreement is simply and solely to allow us to accept > your account request, process order information and perform fulfillment of > products and services. > > Pearson VUE will NOT exchange or sell or transfer your account information > with any other parties other than LPI.
In that case, if both LPI and Pearson VUE are so confident about this, why doesn't the agreement simply say … you consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal data to Pearson VUE and LPI, for the sole purpose of account registration, order processing, and fulfillment of products and services. ? Surely you could have got a lawyer to sign off on that sort of change to the »standard boilerplate«, in the interest of the LPI community. It may well be the case that »everyone uses this«, but LPI is not »everyone«. We (the community) like to hold LPI (an organisation formed by the community, for the community) to a higher standard than your average run-of-the-mill web company. Precision in legal documents is an asset. Blanket permissions of the sort that the »standard boilerplate« contains invite misuse – maybe not now, but if Pearson VUE decides tomorrow, possibly under (hypothetical) new management, that it is worth their while to make all the LPI Marketplace user info on their servers available to, say, Spam-R-Us, Inc. (an »authorized third party« as far as Pearson VUE will be concerned), there is nothing an LPI Marketplace user can do about it, since they consented to this, quite unnecessarily and extraneously, in advance. Anselm (This is my personal opinion and not that of Linup Front GmbH.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
