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Understanding Privacy Policies and User Confusion Regarding Tracking

Privacy policies that explain a company's Web surveillance habits have done little to dispel confusion among Internet users about how they are tracked online, according to a report released Wednesday. The dense, legalistic documents that many commercial Web sites post . . . . Privacy policies that explain a company's Web surveillance habits have done little to dispel confusion among Internet users about how they are tracked online, according to a report released Wednesday. The dense, legalistic documents that many commercial Web sites post to explain their data-collection habits are more likely to provide false reassurance than clarity to Web surfers, the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center found. Prompted by privacy concerns and the threat of national legislation, most top Web sites now contain prominent links to privacy policies that explain how visitors are tracked and what is done with e-mail addresses, names and other personal information they provide. . Privacy policies that explain a company's Web surveillance habits have done little to dispel confusi. privacy, policies, explain, company's, surveillance, habits, little, dispel, confusi. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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ICaughtYou CEO Talks About National Security And Employee Monitoring

Palmer is the CEO of ICaughtYou, a private Bonita Springs, Fla.-based company that allows corporations to monitor their employees' Internet usage. His company has been one of the unsuspecting beneficiaries of the terrorist attacks. Even before Sept. 11, the downturn in . . . . Palmer is the CEO of ICaughtYou, a private Bonita Springs, Fla.-based company that allows corporations to monitor their employees' Internet usage. His company has been one of the unsuspecting beneficiaries of the terrorist attacks. Even before Sept. 11, the downturn in the economy led to a heightened interest in worker productivity and in the products of ICaughtYou and competitors SurfControl and Websense. Now, a new emphasis on national security has put corporate security in the spotlight and has led to a quadrupling of hits on the ICaughtYou Web site. This isn't the first time ICaughtYou has benefited from tragedy. The company was born two years ago, when a tech guru for a government agency suspected his wife was cheating on him. He recruited fellow programmers from America Online and Coca-Cola to help him figure out a way to monitor her instant message sessions. The technology fulfilled its mission and became the core product of ICaughtYou. The link for this article located at c/net is no longer available. . Thompson heads SafeWatch, a firm tracking remote worker behavior, growing popularity after the pandemic for organizational protection.. Employee Surveillance, Corporate Monitoring, Internet Tracking, Workplace Privacy. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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