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Senator brings back online tracking bill  31 January 2001 
Source: CNET - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
The North Carolina Democrat's bill stakes out an aggressive position in the debate over Internet privacy, requiring Web sites to reveal their use of technology that commonly runs in the background without the knowledge of the visitor. Most other bills . . .
 
Spotlight On Privacy  31 January 2001 
Source: SFGate - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
A showdown is brewing between the technology industry and consumer advocates over what kind of online privacy legislation the 107th Congress should adopt. Consumer advocates and many legislators want a federal law that limits what e-commerce firms can do with . . .
 
DeCSS Allies Ganging Up  27 January 2001 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
A federal court decision that restricted a DVD-descrambling program ignores free speech rights and should be overturned, eight different coalitions claim. The groups, representing everyone from cryptographers to journalists, have ganged up to attack the ruling in separate amicus briefs scheduled . . .
 
Protecting Privacy: Europe's As Bad As U.S.  26 January 2001 
Source: TechWeb - Posted by Jen Olson   
Despite tighter regulations, European website operators are no better at protecting the privacy of visitors than their U.S. counterparts, according a study released Thursday. Two-thirds of the 751 websites in the United States and Europe surveyed by the advocacy group Consumers . . .
 
Web sites fail to protect privacy  26 January 2001 
Source: ZDNet UK - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The vast majority of European and US Web sites are failing to protect users' privacy, according to a UK-based consumer interest group Thursday. Consumers International, which represents 263 consumer organisations, says that hardly any Internet sites which collect . . .
 
DEA data theft raises privacy concerns  24 January 2001 
Source: News.com - Posted by Chris Pallack   
The prosecution of a Drug Enforcement Administration officer in Los Angeles on charges of selling data from a variety of restricted databases has privacy advocates again questioning whether government protections on private data are strict enough.
 
Resumes Get Hijacked Online  24 January 2001 
Source: SFGate - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
What a precious document is your resume - the deeply personal record of your status and achievement, your whole life contained in a couple of absolutely priceless pages. And on the open market, it is worth about 7 cents. . . .
 
More privacy to come this year  22 January 2001 
Source: ComputerUser - Posted by Nick DeClario   
Having failed to pass any meaningful Internet privacy legislation last year even with a resounding mandate from most voters, Congress cannot afford to miss another opportunity to enact online privacy laws this year, lest the Internet be gridlocked by a myriad . . .
 
Vendor, advocacy groups dig trenches in online privacy war  21 January 2001 
Source: Computer World - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
President-elect George W. Bush hasn't even taken office yet, but there's already a battle brewing for his attention between groups that are espousing different approaches for regulating online data privacy. In a letter sent Tuesday to Bush, congressional leaders and . . .
 
Privacy, Net tax high Congress agenda  18 January 2001 
Source: ZDNet - Posted by Nick DeClario   
Washington is more eager than ever to get its arms around the Internet, and much of the work of the 107th Congress will revolve around e-commerce and other online issues. For all the conventional hand-wringing over the perceived perils of a . . .
 
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