IP: Protecting your privacy

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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From:           golds () iname com
To:             farber () cis upenn edu
Subject:        Protecting your privacy 
Date:           Tuesday, January 11, 2000 10:05 PM

Dave,

This article starts with a good discussion of why privacy issues are of 
more than just personal concern, and then goes on to review some pros and 
cons of the World Wide Web Consortium's Platform for Privacy Preferences 
(P3P) project.

Rich Goldschmidt
golds () mail com

http://www.digitalmass.com/news/daily/0106/pluggedin.html

Protecting your privacy
By Simson Garfinkel
Globe Staff, 1/6/2000

According to a pair of studies recently released by the Wharton School of 
Business, on-line shopping could be in trouble: Although total spending was 
up in 1999, the average number of dollars spent per Internet user was down.

Meanwhile, a growing number of Internet users are dropping out and going 
permanently off line, the reports found.

The researchers at Wharton, who have tracked more than 23,000 Internet 
users since 1997, say that the single biggest factor depressing on-line 
sales is concern about privacy - and specifically, monitoring by third 
parties.

A second big factor is an unwillingness to trust the on-line business with 
private data.



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