<nettime> FC: Doubleclick asks slashdot to yank story; more on lawsuit

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

  [orig to <politech@vorlon.mit.edu>. the tuesday usatoday story:
   <http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth211.htm>; slashdot on
   weds: <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/25/2356236&mode=thread>;
   see also <http://slashdot.org/yro/00/01/28/0917229.shtml>--tb]

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>From: "Ira P. Rothken, Esq." <ira@techfirm.com>
>To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com>
>Subject: Re: Doubleclick sued for "violating privacy rights of Net users"
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:10:00 -0800
>
>Declan,
>
>Thanks for the note...you should know that we did not sue for money
>damages - only injunctive relief to have Doubleclick stop the alleged unfair
>business practices. Any information you can provide to us to assist us in
>our investigation is appreciated :-)
>
>Ira P. Rothken, Esq.
>www.techfirm.com

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>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:17:52 -0800 (PST)
>From: Robin Miller <roblimo@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: roblimo@slashdot.org
>Subject: Doubleclick Dumb PR Move
>To: declan@well.com
>
>Wednesday Slashdot ran a small story about DoubleClick's
>user tracking tactics and linked to a USA Today story on
>the subject. Doubleclick's reaction? Here's the followup I
>posted on Slashdot Friday afternoon:
>
>Robin "roblimo" Miller
>  http://slashdot.org
>  http://andover.net
>
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>
>
>          - Friday, January 28, 2 p.m. US EST
>
>Tuesday USA Today reporter Will Rodger wrote about
>DoubleClick. We linked to his story here. Wednesday
>afternoon a DoubleClick Corporate Communications person*
>called Andover.net Corporate Communications VP Janet Holian
>and asked her to remove our story and the link to USA
>Today.
>
>Janet passed the problem to me, since Andover has a very
>strict policy prohibiting Andover  corporate people from
>interfering in editorial decisions.
>
>I listened politely to the DoubleClick person, who told me
>USA Today's story was innacurate and we were wrong to link
>to it, and how she was calling journalists all over the
>country to tell them that the information in it was false
>and should not be relied upon. Then she requested that we
>pull the Slashdot story that linked to the USA Today story.
>No direct threats were made, but the words "refer this to
>our legal department" were said....
>
>URL: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/28/0917229
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