6-3-96. NYP: "As privacy grows scarcer on the Internet, people finally start to take notice." Denise Caruso column. Tomorrow, the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection is sponsoring a public workshop in Washington called "Consumer Privacy on the Global Information Infrastructure." The F.T.C.'s intention is to find out how much consumers and the industry really know about critical privacy issues created by what it calls "the emerging on-line marketplace," and to look at various ways to protect personal data. Privacy on data networks is a complex issue. It includes thorny questions about anonymity -- who should be allowed to be anonymous in network interactions, and under what circumstances -- and the red-hot debate over digital encryption, which can protect private communication and transactions from all prying eyes, including the Government's. PRY_ing