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New Internet service protects privacy, helps get names off Lexis P-Trak and other database lists; Earlier pressure from Aristotle forced Lexis and Metromail to abandon selling names, addresses of nation's children.

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From: Business Wire
Date: 19960920
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 1996--In the wake of the Lexis P-Trak database outrage, San Francisco based Aristotle Publishing, Inc. has introduced an internet service that can remove names and personal information from databases such as Lexis and other electronic and direct marketing lists.

Available at http://www.aristotle.org, the service is being offered at no cost as part of a free e-mail pilot program by Aristotle.

The offer was made by Aristotle Publishing president John Phillips in response to concerns by thousands of e-mail users that personal information ...

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