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The Office of Management and Budget last week amended its privacy policy to allow agencies to use certain types of technology to personalize their Web sites for visitors. Privacy has become one of the overriding concerns of agencies, Congress and citizens . . .
Signs are multiplying that online privacy is fast becoming a moot point - at least for shoppers. Americangreetings.com, the second largest retail site on the Web, has a click-through rate on its privacy policy link of 0.009 percent, or 9 in 100,000 visitors. The company had 8.1 million unique visitors in August.. . .
The proposed wiretap bill would make it more difficult for prosecutors to obtain court permission to monitor the telephone numbers dialed by a suspect. The bill would require the same standard of evidence now needed for permission to tap a telephone conversation. . . .
E-businesses place privacy low on their list of priorities and appear most worried about hackers and other security issues, a survey has found. The survey, part of the Cutter Consortium's E-Business Trends, Strategies and Technologies report released Wednesday, pegged security, cost . . .
Five groups of researchers have bowed out of the competition to evaluate the so-called Carnivore Internet surveillance system. And that likely will dash Justice Department hopes that a major university would validate its controversial eavesdropping device, participants said Tuesday.. . .
A bill proposed earlier this summer that would prohibit companies from secretly monitoring their employees' e-mail messages and Internet usage could get key congressional subcommittee approval next week as lawmakers rush to finish up business before adjourning early next month. . . .
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