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A row has erupted in the United States centering on the ownership of a gay teenagers’ database.<\/p>\n

The owner of XY Magazine and its associated website – which catered for young homosexual boys – filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.<\/p>\n

XY’s creditors have applied for the firm’s one remaining valuable asset: its database of one million users.<\/p>\n

But the Federal Trade Commission has expressed its concerns and said the sale “could violate Federal law”.<\/p>\n

The issue of selling databases is not new, but it is the sensitivity of this particular database that is catching the attention of lawmakers.<\/p>\n

The list contains details of tens of thousands of young men, the majority of whom will be gay.<\/p>\n

Writing on the technology blog Read Write Web, Curt Hopkins summed up the concern felt by many users.<\/p>\n

“The selling off of private information, gathered under the supposition of privacy, is bad enough,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“Even worse if you’re forced into it.<\/p>\n

"And positively untenable when the information is connected to kids who are dealing with a dawning sexual reality that in some instances is even more fraught than what straight kids go through,” he added.<\/p>\n

Simon Davies, director of the human rights campaign group Privacy International, told BBC News that while privacy policy was very clear, in the event of bankruptcy or winding-up “all bets are off”.<\/p>\n

“Information shouldn’t be used for a purpose other than for which it was originally intended,” he said.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“However, in the real world, when a firm goes into receivership, all bets are off when it comes to protection, because everyone’s scrabbling for something of value.<\/p>\n

"It’s yet another hurdle for data protection advocates to jump through,” he added.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

XY’s founding editor, Peter Ian Cummings, filed for bankruptcy in February 2010. He listed his personal assets at $1,500, a net income of zero and one other asset: the “customer list, personal data and editorial and back issues of XY Magazine and XY.com”.<\/p>\n

Shoshanna Schiff, a partner with the Trenk law firm – representing the creditors – told the US website Cnet.com: “Any property listed on the debtor’s bankruptcy petition is property of the bankruptcy estate and my client intends to administer those assets for the benefit of creditors.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n

Considering what wacko fundamentalists do when they get hold of addresses and names of doctors who provide abortions, I dread to think what would happen to these teenagers if this database fell into such hands.<\/p>\n

This is also the point where my mind starts spinning trying to grasp the concepts of capitalism, private property, corporate entities (and their lack of accountability), etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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