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

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Fri Dec 8 06:07:38 PST 2000


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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