The wireless Web could become the privacy-less Web. Most experts acknowledge that it will be difficult to make emerging wireless technologies work together, but it could be even harder to protect the privacy of consumers who use them.. . .
The wireless Web could become the privacy-less Web. Most experts acknowledge that it will be difficult to make emerging wireless technologies work together, but it could be even harder to protect the privacy of consumers who use them.

The Federal Trade Commission, which oversees consumer protection online and offline, gathered industry, government, privacy, and consumer-protection professionals for two days to examine technologies and their implications for privacy and security on the wireless Internet.

Over the next five years, wireless data in mobile commerce will grow more than electronic commerce did in its first five years, FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky said Monday.

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