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CNET.com - News - The Net - IE 5 bug could let Web hackers see files. Internet Explorer 5.0 could, under specific circumstances, allow a malicious Web site operator to view "fragments" of certain files on the computer of a visiting user, according to Georgi Guninski, a programmer who first reported this bug.

ClickZ Network: Precision Marketing - Legacy Profiles. Corporations learn about their offline customers from many sources, collecting data along the way. Everything from how a user initially inquired about a product to which retailer sold the product can be tracked - if there is some practical way to use that data profitably. In the past it was hard to justify data collection as it was expensive and technically difficult to actually use the data to generate additional revenue. Then came the web and its promise of using databases for one-to-one marketing. -

New York Times - free registration required ISP Settles Charges With Amazon.com. An Internet bookseller has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle federal charges its corporate predecessor intercepted e-mails sent by giant rival Amazon.com and possessed unauthorized password files. Alibris, headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., was charged Monday with 10 counts of unlawful interception of e-mail messages and one count of unauthorized possession of passwords with intent to defraud.

New York Times - free registration required New Tools to Protect Online Privacy. David Chaum is at it again. Chaum, a master cryptographer who made his name creating techniques for preserving a person's anonymity on the Net, is now developing a new generation of tools for protecting the privacy of online shoppers.

New York Times - free registration required The New York Times covers Privacy on the Internet. Their own collection of articles from the New York Times - free registration required covering the privacy issue as they see it.

MS-NBC - Privacy concerns emerge over cell-phone plans. The federal government wants your phone company to know where you are when you use your wireless phone. That's prompting privacy advocates to warn that cell phones may become high-tech snoop engines.

ABCNEWS.com : Left, Right Join Forces Over NSA. ECHELON Examined - Officials Looking to Uncover How Funds Used for Spy Work Rep. Robert Barr, R-Ga., says he is concerned that ECHELON, the top-secret eavesdropping system, is so broad that it opens the door to abuses by the intelligence community.

Independent(UK) | News - Spies in the 'forests' . Last week, The Independent reported that a US spy agency had patented a system for eavesdropping on phone calls. Now it is lab-testing software that can sift through calls and e-mails in search of key phrases

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Political News from Wired News - UK Net Bill Passes Hurdle. Contentious proposals to give authorities the power to demand decryption keys from would-be cyber-criminals have been dropped from the UK's electronic communications bill, published Friday by the Department of Trade and Industry.

CNET.com - News - E-commerce - Bookseller admits to intercepting Amazon email. Alibris, an online rare bookseller, pleaded guilty to intercepting emails between its clients and online retail giant Amazon.com, the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston said today.

CNET.com - News - The Net - Privacy advocates rally against DoubleClick-Abacus merger. Consumer advocates are making a last-ditch effort to hinder the $1 billion merger of Internet advertiser DoubleClick with market researcher Abacus Direct, charging that the deal will be an assault on personal privacy.

ZDNet: InterActive Week: Privacy Groups Aim To Block Wiretap Rules.

Leading U.S. privacy groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit to block new federal wiretapping rules they said would require the tracking of wireless telephone users and monitoring of Internet traffic.

The groups said the new rules, released by the Federal Communications Commission in August, would lead to vast surveillance abuses and exceeded a 1994 law that called for updated wiretapping standards.

"APBnews" - NYC Taxis Get Anti-Crime 'Cabby Cams'.

"APBnews" - ACLU Lashes Out at Secret Spy Network. The American Civil Liberties Union has decided to turn the tables on a supposed super-secret government spy system, dubbed Echelon, with a Web site denouncing the clandestine project.

Salon Technology | I told you once .... Hey, Steve Case, why should I have to tell you again? I don't want junk mail.

CNET.com - News - The Net - Privacy group in email gaffe.

An electronic magazine devoted to privacy on the Internet mistakenly exposed dozens of subscriber names and email addresses this morning, ironically repeating the sort of gaffe it normally criticizes.

PrivacyPlace, a start-up magazine launched at the beginning of this month, sent out a newsletter to some 79 subscribers notifying them of new articles and updates to its Web site. But instead of sending "blind carbon copies" to each of the recipients, the company listed names and addresses in the "to" field.