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John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Mon Jun 3 07:41:19 PDT 1996
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.
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