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sovereign immunity

bOINGbOING has another post on the spate of Army recruiting spam UT students have been receiving. A recruiter also left a call on my answering machine last night, and, although, I didn't give Sgt. Chuck a call, as I thought I might, but I am ready to take some kind of action on this issue. A UT law student, Mark Miller, says that anti-spam and anti-telemarketing litigation against the Army would probably be useless because of a legal doctrine called "sovereign immunity," but he is planning to file a Freedom-of-Information-Act request in order to learn how the Army is getting our contact information and who is giving the orders to call our phones. He tells bOINGbOING readers to contact him at mirell@gmail.com with your phone number and the information you get from the Army.

Posted by McChris at December 10, 2004 12:03 PM
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This has been going on for a long time - I was spammed when I went back to UT to take some classes in 2001. I inquired how they got my name and was told that the University sells your contact info to numerous groups - including the military - whenever you sign the release allowing for your contact information to be included in the university directory.

I'm less concerned that they're spamming people than that they're spamming people with misleading info...I wrote a long entry (which I think is linked from the BoingBoing article you reference) if you're interested:

http://www.chompy.net/blogs/sarah/archives/002691.html

Posted by: sarah at December 13, 2004 12:14 PM
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