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Re: ebay and auczilla stats
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lugnet.market.auction
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Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:26:00 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Todd Lehman writes:
> Each individual bid is publicly available information, yes.
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> But to tally up each person's bids from publicly available information and
> then post that _new_ information (which is not publicly available) is
> arguably an invasion of a bidder's privacy, and I'm sure a lot of people
> would complain or at best feel uncomfortable.
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> Again, how much each person is spending is _not_ public information. Each
> individual bid is, yes -- but not the totals.
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> --Todd
I agree with that. Anonymizing the derivative data would solve that. It might
even be a good idea to anonymize the bidding pages themselves.
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: ebay and auczilla stats
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| (...) That would probably solve the individual bidder portion, yes. (...) No, then the personal updates via e-mail would also have to be anonymized, otherwise anyone who wanted to try to tally up people's amounts could just get it from a big e-mail (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: ebay and auczilla stats
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| (...) No, you're mistaken. It's not public information. Each individual bid is publicly available information, yes. But to tally up each person's bids from publicly available information and then post that _new_ information (which is not publicly (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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