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Follow Your E-Mail Everywhere

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Imagine being able to trace where your e-mail goes, and where it's forwarded. Say you had a way to verify that the CEO of the Fortune 500 company you've been hounding for a job indeed got the resume you e-mailed . . .

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Privacy group warns of e-mail wiretap

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A newly identified snooping technology allows someone sending an e-mail to see what the recipient wrote when it is forwarded on to another user, an Internet privacy group announced Monday. It really is a wiretap and it's "very illegal and very . . .

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Senator brings back online tracking bill

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The North Carolina Democrat's bill stakes out an aggressive position in the debate over Internet privacy, requiring Web sites to reveal their use of technology that commonly runs in the background without the knowledge of the visitor. Most other bills . . .

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Spotlight On Privacy

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A showdown is brewing between the technology industry and consumer advocates over what kind of online privacy legislation the 107th Congress should adopt. Consumer advocates and many legislators want a federal law that limits what e-commerce firms can do with . . .

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DeCSS Allies Ganging Up

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A federal court decision that restricted a DVD-descrambling program ignores free speech rights and should be overturned, eight different coalitions claim. The groups, representing everyone from cryptographers to journalists, have ganged up to attack the ruling in separate amicus briefs scheduled . . .

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Protecting Privacy: Europe's As Bad As U.S.

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Despite tighter regulations, European website operators are no better at protecting the privacy of visitors than their U.S. counterparts, according a study released Thursday. Two-thirds of the 751 websites in the United States and Europe surveyed by the advocacy group Consumers . . .

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Web sites fail to protect privacy

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The vast majority of European and US Web sites are failing to protect users' privacy, according to a UK-based consumer interest group Thursday. Consumers International, which represents 263 consumer organisations, says that hardly any Internet sites which collect . . .

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DEA data theft raises privacy concerns

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The prosecution of a Drug Enforcement Administration officer in Los Angeles on charges of selling data from a variety of restricted databases has privacy advocates again questioning whether government protections on private data are strict enough.

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Resumes Get Hijacked Online

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What a precious document is your resume - the deeply personal record of your status and achievement, your whole life contained in a couple of absolutely priceless pages. And on the open market, it is worth about 7 cents. . . .

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More privacy to come this year

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Having failed to pass any meaningful Internet privacy legislation last year even with a resounding mandate from most voters, Congress cannot afford to miss another opportunity to enact online privacy laws this year, lest the Internet be gridlocked by a myriad . . .

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Privacy, Net tax high Congress agenda

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Washington is more eager than ever to get its arms around the Internet, and much of the work of the 107th Congress will revolve around e-commerce and other online issues. For all the conventional hand-wringing over the perceived perils of a . . .

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How to cover your shopping footprints

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Shopping on the Internet is like signing up for a supermarket saver card or getting that extra 10 percent discount when you sign up for a retail store's credit card. You get some immediate savings, but you are also involuntarily subscribing . . .

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Top Privacy Issues of Y2K

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The phenomenal rise, and technological sophistication, of workplace surveillance leads the list of the Top 10 privacy stories of the year 2000, according to a Privacy Foundation analysis. Also in the Top 10 are proposed new medical privacy rules; the FBI's . . .

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Talking About Wireless Privacy

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It could happen outside Abercrombie & Fitch. It could happen near J Crew. It could happen to you, walking down the street in any American city. As you glance at the window display, your cell phone rings with an urgent message: . . .

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