A Florida company, Market Logistics Group Inc., was offering the
names, addresses, daytime and evening telephone numbers of the
investors to the highest bidder.
eBay twice closed down an auction by the company because sales
of bulk mailing lists are prohibited by the site’s terms of use.
Yahoo! also pulled the auction from its site following an
unauthorised press release promoting the sale of the list on
Yahoo!
The decisions to halt the auctions exemplify the increasing
concern of major US web site operators over violations of privacy
and the host site's potential liability for such violations.
