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Although the issues are similar, that decision technically was made in a different case--one where the Justice Department accused Microsoft of violating a "consent decree," an agreement with the federal government not to bundle Internet Explorer and Windows...
Lessig said the current situation is different because the government has accused the company of violating antitrust law, not just a consent decree...
...they could also tout themselves on the basis of who's the least annoying. That's after Chase Manhattan, America's third largest bank, announced Tuesday that it will no longer sell information about its customers' finances to telemarketers, and won't release any information at all without written consent. It wasn't an entirely selfless move - New York attorney general Elliot Spitzer, who accused Chase of violating the self-imposed contract terms of its new accounts, nudged the bank into reform...
...privacy of personal data. In response to these lobbying efforts, Congress passed a law in November that prevents banks from releasing a customer's financial data to outside firms if the customer asks them not to (which doesn't go as far as Chase's move to require consent before selling the info), and some states have recently enacted "do not call" laws in which individuals can place their phone number in a registry of numbers that's off-limits to telemarketers. Soon they'll be back to knocking on doors...
Twice PATRICK O'BRIAN consented to come to the U.S. to promote his books, queasy engagements because he was shy and reclusive and edgy about any attempt at curiosity about him and his life and his (obfuscated) personal history. A BBC reporter once asked when the grapes ripened in the region of France where he lived. Reply: "That is a rather personal question." I was asked to introduce him at one of his New York City appearances, which amounted to readings (he would not consent to give a speech). He was courtly and dutiful, but his mind was beating loudly...