Gates to Privacy Rescue? Riiight! (was Re: BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 12/8/00)

At 8:30 AM -0500 on 12/8/00, BNA Highlights wrote:

THOUGH TECHNOLOGY MIGHT HELP PRIVACY A meeting of business leaders in Redmond, Washington led to a frank debate over the insufficiency of North American action on consumer privacy and the potential for technology to play a key role in protecting such privacy. For example, Bill Gates announced that the next version of IE would better allow consumers to ascertain Web site privacy policies. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/08/technology/08SECU.html

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