Tack this on to Web e-mail security -- attachments 9/21/99, Robin Lloyd, CNN Interactive. As developers and start-ups attack the Web e-mail privacy issue, encryption products for the masses are multiplying, with a company based in Anguilla, in the West Indies, now in tests for sending secure attachments. cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/21/hushmail/index.html
Consumer Privacy May Be Negotiable 7/27/99, Seth Fineberg, ChannelSeven. Internet marketers are soliciting over 600 different types of personal consumer information from prospective shoppers. But increasingly, these marketers are treating this personal information as currency, ascribing a value to it and offering a wide array of services in exchange for it, according to preliminary findings from a soon to be released study by Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm Walden Media. www.channelseven.com/adinsight/market_insight/archive/sr19990727.shtml
Privacy Policies Promote Purchases 7/21/99, Michel Fortin, SuccessDoctor.com. Today, one of the most important aspects of doing business online is the ability to build a certain trust among the people with whom you do business. Scams, snake oils, and get-rich-quick schemes have somewhat found a niche on the web, and people are understandably cautious as well as leery of making a purchase via the web. successdoctor.com/article41.htm
Online Privacy and the European Controversy 6/18/99, Andy Oram, Web Review. Designers of major web sites have learned that it's good public relations to post privacy notices. But the current furor over online notices, the emerging specification called P3P ("Platform for Privacy Preferences"), and branding programs like TRUSTe or BBBOnline can become a distraction from deeper issues. webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/06/18/platform/index.html
Is Privacy Inevitable? 5/11/99, Deborah Kania, ClickZ. IBM recently said "No" to advertising on web sites that don't post a clear privacy policy. We saw an uproar over Intel admitting that it can identify web users from a computer chip serial number. www.searchz.com/Articles/0511991.shtml
New Numbers on Consumer Internet Privacy 5/17/99, eMarketer. How threatened is the privacy of internet users due to information gathering by websites? Over 90% of sites surveyed collect information. On the other hand, two thirds of sites now offer some kind of notice or disclosure on privacy. www.emarketer.com/estats/051799_priv.html
Misusing Permission 5/3/99, Dana Blankenhorn, A-Clue.com. Last week I raved over Seth Godin's book, "Permission Marketing". This week I want to rant against how Web permission is often abused. www.a-clue.com/archive/99/cl990503.htm#story1
Filing a Copyright To Protect Online Content Is Not So Easy 5/10/99, Elizabeth Gardner, Internet World.You know that you automatically hold a copyright in the Web site you've created. But suppose you knew that by filing a two-page form with the U.S. Copyright Office--a process known as registering a copyright--you could assure your ability to collect up to $100,000 from anyone who swipes pieces of your Web site, even if you didn't lose any money, and to make the defendant pay your attorney's fees besides. www.internetworld.com/print/1999/05/10/webdev/19990510-filing.html
Court Rules Registered Domain Name Is Not Trademark 4/26/99, Elizabeth Clampet, Iternet.com News. A registered domain name must be providing goods and services in order for it to receive trademark protection, a federal court ruled late last week. www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_105321,00.html
