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IP: Washington Unconvinced That Internet Advertisers Can Police Themselves
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 05:20:07 -0400
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/columns/061400privacy-adcol.html Washington Unconvinced That Internet Advertisers Can Police Themselves By JERI CLAUSING WASHINGTON -- Despite months of effort, Internet advertisers are having a tough time convincing Washington that they can police themselves. The Federal Trade Commission and the advertisers said yesterday that they had made progress negotiating a set of voluntary privacy standards that the companies should follow when building profiles of Web surfers. But the commission was not ready to say whether such an agreement would go far enough to eliminate the need for federal legislation.
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