See below. So far, many corporations have been quite lax in pursuing this new federal law. Given that internet service providers in part make their living by shopping "prospective customer" information all over the place, don't be surprised if you have not heard from your internet service provider. You might want to think about taking the inititave as below. June 26, 2001 AOL Customer Service: Recent federal legislation has imposed upon you the requirement to seek permission from the customer prior to sharing any information you may have relative to that customer. You were required to publish to your customers your particular privacy policy with respect to sharing customer information and the extent to which you intend to share any information not required by law. This policy would also extend to sharing of information with others in your "corporate family", e. g., in your case, Time or any other corporate entity. As a part of this notice, the customer is to be given the opportunity to "opt out" of your policy, thereby making it illegal for you to engage in such information sharing to any degree as it pertains to that particular customer. Since I have not heard from you in this matter, please accept this e-mail as my notitification that I wish to "opt out" of any policy of yours which shares ANY information regarding me with entities within or without of the AOL-Time Warner, Inc. organization. Would you be so kind as to acknowledge receipt of this notification? Thank you. Yours very truly, John M. Poythress ([email protected])