No, no - this is indeed ROT, i.e. Rather Off Track, i.e. nonsense: >> I even think that swedish law says that I can't save a file for more than 5 >> years or something equaly stupid ;) >> (Or atleast this was the case a few years back) > Yes, I can't save information that has been stored in a file for more then > 5 years (or some other number, I don't remember). I doub't that anyone > This law was made somewhere in the 70's and I think it was changed a few There is indeed a law on PERSONAL DATA databank type files (containing identification data and the like) which has been established rather early at the time in Sweden, then adapted to EU privacy rules lately. Has nothing to do with usual PC "files". The only point where PC users - and specificly commarcial use - may get in touch with these regulations is when you maintain a telephone list or address list and use it to fax or eMail items to a wider "public"; especially when it comes to "unsollicited" sendings. This type of databank information is by now subject to regulation in most countries: theoretically, the holder is obliged to signal the existence of such list to some registration body (often an ombusman instance), and individuals whose data are registered in a list have to be informed about it and given opportunity to be not listed. (You see references to that in many administrative papers by now.) This is, in principle, a rather meaningful regulationto protect the citizen against megalomanian and uncontrollable data sampling. Heimo Claasen / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Brussels 1999-03-20 HomePage of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.inti.be/hammer To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
