The Australian - Packer sets up Big Brother data store.
A GIANT data warehouse containing the personal and financial details of almost every Australian is being constructed by a United States company and will be operational by Christmas. The warehouse will contain information from a diverse range of sources, including credit companies, retailers, electoral rolls, post office lists, car sales records and housing purchase records.
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San Jose Mercury News (Dan Gilmor)- AOL's arrogance is answered by canceled account (11/29/1999).
Should you wish to change your preferences at any time in the future, you may do so by going to the AOL Marketing Preferences area. Please note that this screen name can not accept e-mail replies.
Yahoo Dailynews - AOL To Users: Opt Out Again.
AOL said that if subscribers want their preferences to remain in place, they must again fill out what is known as an "opt out" form. If they do nothing, information about their accounts and Web habits may be distributed to marketers and other interested parties.
San Jose Mercury News - `Cybersmear' lawsuits raise privacy concern.
But these lawsuits are raising major concerns among Internet users and privacy advocates, who warn that well-heeled companies are abusing the court system to crush critics and even retaliate against their own employees. Groups such as the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) already are exploring whether the John Doe suits should be challenged on free speech and privacy grounds.
``It's a very new area of the law,'' said Ann Beeson, staff attorney with the ACLU's New York-based national legal department. ``We're making the argument that there is a right to communicate anonymously. We aren't saying people have the right to defame, but . . . the presumption should be in favor of the First Amendment.''
The Denver Post Online / Digital Divide - Privacy under attack on 'Net.
Numerous marketers buy and sell the collected data, or "online profiles," which can result in, among other things, unsolicited email, or spam.
But critics of this practice, in cluding Shen, fear that as technolo gy spreads from the Internet - to telephones, televisions, cars and appliances - the pool of informa tion will grow. Eventually, they say, those bits and bytes of person al data could be used to prevent people from getting housing, edu cation, insurance coverage or even jobs.
Yahoo Dailynews - Cursor Software Tracks Web Traffic.
Popular software used by more than 16 million people to change a Web browser's computer cursor into cartoon characters and other images is quietly tracking its customers across the Internet and recording which Web pages they visit.
New York-based Comet Systems Inc.'s free cursor software reports back to its own computers with each customer's unique serial number each time that person visits any of 60,000 Web sites - including dozens aimed at young children - that support its technology.
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