>No, no - this is indeed ROT, i.e. Rather Off Track, i.e. nonsense: Perhaps, but I'm not that good at this legal stuff. I could point out however that it's not illegal to copy programs for your friends in Sweden. This has atleast been proven in a court of law so I shouldn't be incorrect on this point. >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 way I understood it the law _was_ that ALL files older than so and so many years (5?) where supposed to be deleted, this was later changed. However I can be wrong, since I don't actually care about this law. It was just an example of a very stupid law. I bet thre are several of them in each country. >This is, in principle, a rather meaningful regulationto protect the >citizen against megalomanian and uncontrollable data sampling. Yes, for data on persons (ex. address lists) and that we (in Sweden) can't run two diffrent databases against each other the laws are good. But I can't state that I ex. disslike this and that person (ex. polticians) because of other data laws. The thing about running 2 databases against each other is mainly since many places pick up our "personal-numbers", if I want to rent a video the guy in the store might want to know it and I "have" (if I don't want to create a scene) to answer "790810-6235" Sometimes they don't need the last 4 digits, but they could use this information together with some other stuff, like where I live or what money I get from the goverment etc. BTW: I couldn't believe the way "ombudsman" was pronounced when I heard it on an American TV show a few moths back (Caroline in the City). It sounds much better in the original language - Swedish. ;) //Bernie 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.
