A common tactic in direct mail is to disguise the nature of the solicitation and send you something that doesn't indicate what's inside, to make you open the envelope. People aren't opening the 'mystery envelopes' right now. |
A lot of people think government is the primary threat [to] privacy, ... long been surpassed by private companies. |
Advertisers are already watching where people go on sites and now they're trying to get details of what is actually bought. Companies holding personal profiles should be required by law to handle the information with extreme care and only use it for the primary authorized purpose. |
Amazon wants to protect themselves from later [customer] lawsuits that claim, 'We weren't told,' ... They also want to leave the door open if they need to sell off a division or claim bankruptcy. They know that their consumer database is one of their most valuable assets, so they want to give themselves max flexibility--which means less privacy for customers. |
AOL is the target of choice [for spammers]. |
By synchronizing cookies with name and address from e-mail, registrations, and e-commerce transactions, the merged company would have a surveillance database of Orwellian proportions, |
By synchronizing cookies with name and address from e-mail, registrations, and e-commerce transactions, the merged company would have a surveillance database of Orwellian proportions. |
Engage has done many good things to protect privacy, but my worry is they are firing the starting gun in the race for the bottom, |
Filters ... will really never be perfect, |
God bless them, |
I guess it would be difficult, given the appalling state of Internet privacy, for the FTC to again recommend against federal privacy law, |
I think privacy policies may be getting worse. They're getting longer, more difficult to understand, and filled with more loopholes. |
I'm not sure [Passport's] going to fly, but in case it does we have to try to protect the privacy of the people who use it. It could end up being the largest surveillance mechanism in history. |
If you're taking your laptop to Paris and you have to download your e-mail over an expensive long-distance phone call, you still have to download that stuff even if it's junked before you see it. It's really sweeping the cost under the carpet. |
It shows that we're on a downhill slope. Companies, as they go into bankruptcy or find out more about the legal risks, tend to erect reinforcements around their posteriors. That's bad for the consumer. |