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[FYI] Report: Online Privacy Crisis Yet To Come
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- Subject: [FYI] Report: Online Privacy Crisis Yet To Come
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:34:36 +0200
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Report: Online Privacy Crisis Yet To Come
By Chet Dembeck
E-Commerce Times
June 7, 2000
A new report by Forrester Research suggests that the online privacy
debate will temporarily subside and then reach a crisis point by
2004.
"First, businesses under continuing relentless competitive pressure
will increase the power and the scope of their information handling
abilities," Forrester analyst Jay Stanley writes. "Second, the
privacy issue will spill outward from Web sites to offline data
collection, privacy threats built into software and the aggregation
of data by marketers and personal information brokers."
Stream of Scandals
According to the report, the third factor that will ignite this
second wave of privacy problems will be a "steady stream of privacy
mini-scandals" uncovered by the media that will create a sharp sense
of the harm that can come from privacy violations.
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