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Software Retailer Uses FOIA to Spam Students
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posted by filter_editor
on Wednesday November 20, @10:22AM
from the free-to-speak-but-not-to-spam dept.
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The Wall Street Journal reports [reg. required] that an enterprising software retailer used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain a list of students' names and addresses from West Virginia University--then used the list to send the students spam. This creative "re-purposing" of the FOIA was uncovered by student activist Matthew Poe, previously involved in a lawsuit challenging free-speech restrictions on the WVU campus.
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