Privacy

Stefanie Olsen reports in CNet (12/28/00) that

The Privacy Foundation released its list of top privacy concerns in
2000, and the group judged workplace surveillance to be the top
privacy concern during the past year. Second on the list was the
privacy of medical records, followed by the privacy questions raised
by the FBI's Carnivore email surveillance system. Other top privacy
issues during 2000 included

  the sale of customer data and how that relates to companies' privacy
   policies;
  the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; wireless tracking technologies;
  Web bugs and data-collecting cookies;
  and the use of email and server logs as evidence in court cases.

The Privacy Foundation predicts that workplaces will begin offering
"spy-free" offices as a benefit to employers. The foundation also
predicts that universities will begin offering degree programs in
privacy; that spam will be fought by consumer-choice standards; that
Web bugs will become more of a threat than cookies; and that courts
will increase their use of email and computer communications as
evidence.

See http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4302729.html