IP: UPenn privacy study says kids sell out parents; financial privacy

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

> > Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:48:13 -0700
> > Subject: paper by Richard Rahn
> > From: "Margaret Rogers" <mrogers () noveconfinancial com>
> > To: declan () well com
> >
> > Dear Declan,
> >
> > I thought that your readers might be interested in Dr. Rahn's recent paper
> > about financial privacy and anti-money laundering legislation,"End the "Bank
> > Anti-Secrecy" Assault on Financial Privacy" which has been published on the
> > Competitive Enterprise Institute's website. The paper can be found at:
> >
> > http://www.cei.org/OnPointReader.asp?ID=980.
>
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>
> > Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:42:59 -0400
> > From: "Christopher D. Hunter" <chunter () asc upenn edu>
> > Organization: University of Pennsylvania
> > To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> > Subject: new privacy study
> >
> > Declan,
> >
> > Politech readers may be interested in the results of the Annenberg
> > Public Policy Center's "The Internet and The Family 2000" survey.  The
> > most interesting results show a major disconnect between what
> > information parents would allow their children to release to web sites,
> > and what information children (and teens) think is okay to release.
> >
> > press release:
> > http://www.appcpenn.org/final_release_fam.pdf
> >
> >
> > full report:
> > http://www.appcpenn.org/finalrepor_fam.pdf
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Christopher D. Hunter
> > Ph.D. Candidate
> > Annenberg School for Communication
> > University of Pennsylvania
> > 215-732-4612
> > chunter () asc upenn edu
> > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/
>
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>
> > From: "Rodger, William" <wrodger () usatoday com>
> > To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
> > Subject: two-thirds of kids will sell out parents for online business inte
> >         rests
> > Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:02:54 -0400
> > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
> >
> > Declan --
> >
> > Here's an aspect of the privacy debate central to the COPPA law but
> > conspicuously absent from your list.
> >
> >
> > W.
> >
> >                  05/16/00- Updated 07:18 AM ET
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >                   Study: Kids offer facts online for gifts
> >
> >                   WASHINGTON (AP) - Many children feel comfortable giving
> > out personal
> >                   family information on the Internet in exchange for free
> > gifts and sweepstakes,
> >                   an independent study finds.
> >
> >                   In exchange for a free gift, about two-thirds of children
> > ages 10-17 said they
> >                   would provide commercial Web site operators with the names
> > of their
> >                   favorite stores and more than half would give their
> > parents' favorites,
> >                   according to the study released Tuesday by the University
> > of Pennsylvania's
> >                   Annenberg Public Policy Center.
> >
> >                   ''Parents need to better understand the Web's ability to
> > track information,
> >                   and kids need to be engaged in serious discussions with
> > their parents about
> >                   privacy and sharing information,'' said Joseph Turow,
> > author of the report.
> >
> >                   ''Web sites have the ability to collect and bring together
> > information and
> >                   create a profile of kids and eventually their families.''
> >
> >                   Nearly all parents questioned said their children should
> > have parental
> >                   consent before giving information online.
> >
> >                   While about three-quarters of the children agreed, their
> > caution disappeared
> >                   when enticed by a free gift, Turow said.
>
> [...]
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