Language at issue.(Privacy Flap)(Comcast Cable Communications Inc.'s privacy policy questioned in Portland, Oregon)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, September, 2003
A letter from David Olson, director of the office of cable and franchise management in Portland, Ore., to a Comcast official, Deborah Luppold, vice president of Comcast Cable Communications Inc., in Beaverton, Ore., said language in Comcast's privacy policy is raising concerns about consumer-privacy protection.
Among other points, Olson wrote: "Comcast's revised privacy policy provides that Comcast may 'disclose personally identifiable information' to Comcast's 'affiliates or to others [such as employees, contractors and agents for our internal business purposes] as well as outside auditors, professional advisers, service providers, potential business transaction partners, regulators and franchise authorities with or without your written consent if...
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