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Digital Commerce: Consumers' Desire for Information Privacy Ignored: "Several new, sweeping Internet surveillance initiatives, for example, have been introduced by the Clinton White House over the last few weeks -- including one that would monitor private industries for illegal transactions. Another would allow law enforcement agents with a court order to secretly enter private homes or offices to 'wiretap' the hard disks and Internet connections of computer users."

Source: nytimes

Gain for Online Industry on Privacy Issue: "'On the other hand, just putting a notice on the Internet about a privacy policy is not all the protection that consumers deserve,' Pitofsky said."

Source: nytimes

Online Industry Seizes the Initiative on Privacy: "Industry self-regulation, the FTC concluded, was not working."

Source: nytimes