Wednesday, July 14, 2010

FTC Warns Against Selling XY Mag's Gay Youth Data

A small furore is brewing over XY Magazine, an American magazine and website for young gay men that closed in 2007 (the website in 2009).

When its former owner, Peter Ian Cummings, filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year, he listed almost no assets—except for the details of about 100,000 subscribers to the magazine and perhaps as many as a million website users, many of them gay teenagers who might be living at home and not out to their parents.(
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