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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 . . .

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 . . .

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: . . .

One-use credit cards ease e-security woes

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Concerns about on-line credit card security and privacy of personal information are often listed as the major reasons for this lack of Internet purchasing. According to Visa Canada Association, in 1999, 67 per cent of Canadian shoppers didn't see the Internet . . .