Privacy: The Liability Link
Starting in 1998 with the GeoCities case in which the company was charged with violating its own privacy policy by sharing customer data, companies investigated for surreptitiously collecting personal information and reselling it to third-party marketers have received little more than federal chastisements warning them to clean up their acts. Credit card files stolen from merchant databases have yielded no charges for faulty security. And spam is still everywhere.
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