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Friday, August 29, 2003 |
Privacy activists
buy data on top officials to make point (AP).
Almost everything is for sale on the Internet -- even the
Social Security numbers of top government officials like CIA Director
George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft, consumer advocates warned
Wednesday.
The California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said for
$26 each it was able to purchase the Social Security numbers and home
addresses for Tenet, Ashcroft and other top Bush administration officials,
including Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser.
1:32:20 PM 
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Bookstore
Ends Beer Promotion: Private Bookseller
Was Offering Free Beer To Customers.
The Nebraska Bookstore has ended its free beer promotion for
students who bought textbooks. Barry Major, chief operating officer for
Nebraska Book Company, said Wednesday the promotion was dropped because of
concerns raised by University of Nebraska-Lincoln administrators. The
bookstore, located just off the campus in downtown Lincoln, is privately
owned and was within its legal rights to offer the promotion. The offer was
a coupon for one free beer or $2 off an order of buffalo wings at Brewsky's
Food and Spirits.
Free beer or appetizers. The implications of the ad are pretty
obvious, sais Lincoln police chief Tom Casady.
We've tried to change that attitude around Lincoln so people aren't
constantly putting that connection together of college
and beer.
. . .
UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Casady, co-chairman of NU Directions,
were pleased the promotion has ended.
11:32:02 AM
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Freedom's Dark Side. Virtual intelligentsia from across the continent and beyond congregate in Vienna to celebrate the specter haunting cybercapitalism: free information. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
6:12:34 AM
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