Possible sale of gay teen database sparks privacy fears

[davidinalameda]

A row has erupted in the United States centring on the ownership of a gay teenagers' database.

The owner of XY Magazine and its associated website - which catered for young homosexual boys - filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.

XY's creditors have applied for the firm's one remaining valuable asset: its database of one million users.

But the Federal Trade Commission has expressed its concerns and said the sale "could violate Federal law".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10612800.stm

[Ozymanithrax]

1. No matter what you are told, once you are in a database, you have...

signed away your right to privacy.

It appears that technology has forever stripped us of a right. The only way to protect that right is to eschew the technology that takes it away.

[msongs]

2. caters to young homosexual boys - sounds like the FBI oughta look into this nt

[Evasporque]

3. I've worked with some old databases...

But never a gay one...lol