(Moderator's note: I had trouble accessing the URLs listed below, but http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~martinas/Survey/exper.html worked for me.--Andy) Please help distribute this message as much as possible.... and please fill out the survey yourself! Thank you SECURITY, PRIVACY, COSTS AND MARKETING ON THE INTERNET: DO WE NEED REGULATION AND PROTECTION? Once again, the Centre for Technology Studies (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada) is embarking on an Internet venture to hopefully shed some light on various issues affecting our PRIVACY AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA. Current attempts by U.S. Congress and the House of Representatives, Compuserve in Bavaria, the European Union and many others to censor our information and/or limit our freedom of speech through regulation and the gathering of data make this a timely issue. To help this project along the Centre for Technology Studies is conducting this research with the collaboration of a team of researchers from the University of the German Federal Armed Forces at Hamburg as well as Texas A & M - Corpus Christi. The study is strictly confidential and only aggregate results will be used, thereby protecting your privacy to the utmost possible! We would appreciate if you could help us in disseminating this information as widely as possible, thereby helping us to get a large sample. For ease of access to the survey, please point your browser to either of the two sites listed below: Germany: http://www.unibw-hamburg.de/WWEB/bwl/urs/intro.html U.S.: http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~martinas/Survey/intro.html The study runs from March 15 through May 15, 1996 We would appreciate also if you could let your friends and others know about this project (e.g., through electronic newsletters, as an item under computer news in a newspaper/magazine and word of mouth). Moreover, any LINK FROM A WEB SITE to the above locations with the survey would be greatly appreciated. If you have any QUESTIONS AND/OR COMMENTS, please contact the undersigned. Cordially Urs E. Gattiker PS. Please fill out the survey, you will be surprised..... RESPONDENTS WILL RECEIVE A SUMMARY REPORT FIRST! Feb. 28, 96 Privacy Survey Rev.datacoll.ectmedia1 Starting March 9 -- SUMMER TIME IN GERMANY -- 7 hrs ahead of New York till end of April >>From March 23 - April 20, 96 I will be on the road in North America You can reach me via e-mail •••@••.••• Otherwise call Canada (403) 320-6966 Mountain-Standard-Time any morning ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- |Prof Urs E. Gattiker E-Mail: •••@••.•••| |Univ. of the German Federal|Phone: (+49)(40) 6541-2889 (office) | |Armed Forces at Hamburg | mrngs (+49)(40) 6541-2650 (home-off) |FB WOW TE 280.4 | Fax: (+49)(40) 6541-2780 | |Holstenhofweg 85 | |22039 Hamburg/Germany WWW URL http://www.uleth.ca/~Gattiker | | | |PRIVACY CHECK http://www.unibw-hamburg/WWEB/bwl/urs/intro.html | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ CyberJournal: (WWW or FTP) --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~