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Net privacy and the myth of self-regulation

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Net privacy and the myth of self-regulation

By Evan Hansen

October 16, 2001

Two of the principal tools championed by industry "self-regulators" to preserve online consumer privacy rights, disclosure and anonymity are fast looking like a smoke screen to justify some extraordinary corporate intrusions.

Consider the case of ComScore Networks, one of several new online market research companies to emerge within the last year providing access to pure "clickstream" data on Web surfers. The company has signed up about 1.5 million members by offering software to speed up Web performance. In exchange, it demands complete access to all of the information that streams over the browser, peering in on everything from Web pages visited to secure transactions and even personal banking records.

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