As far as I can gather the privacy laws only apply to the country in
which the website is held and any person who uses this site assumes the
law of the nation applying them.
The Data Protection Act, 1989 (England) as it stands requires the
knowledge of the person whose data is being held on computer, this could
be included in a small disclamier, as long as the user knows his/her
data is being held on compueter it is not a problem (this could be
included in a disclaimer - the user hitting the 'submit' button
acknowledges the disclamier and agrees to it.

	Graham Redway

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <37d817af@news.povray.org> , "Rune S. Johansen"
> <run### [at] inamecom> wrote:
> 
> > Would it be useful with a public database on the web containing information
> > about the users of POV-Ray?
> 
> The problem would be data privacy laws in countries around the world.
> Especially in the European Union these laws are very strict (i.e. compared
> to the nearly non-existing ones in the USA). I don't know if they cover the
> case of freely entering private data into a public database, but they might
> - which the can cause problems for the database maintainer, even if he/she
> is not a citizen of the European Union!
> 
>     Thorsten
> 
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