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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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:07:38AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: | | 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 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20001207/tc/forrester_exec_injects_security_... REDMOND, Wash. -- Just a few hours after Bill Gates opened Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) SafeNet 2000 security summit here Thursday on an optimistic note, Forrester Research Inc.'s (Nasdaq:FORR - news) John McCarthy blew it all up. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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