Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:29:35 -0500 From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro gps@kstream.com Subject: UPSIDE today: The Rise of Little Brother John Markoff writes in Upside on-line on the Rise of Little Brother -- privacy concerns arising from the Internet. Now, each electronic transaction--whether it's an online purchase via the Internet or a telephone call to purchase an item from a catalog retailer--may also be revealed to more than a dozen other companies, including phone companies, payment processors and package-delivery companies. And thus far, no one has told these companies which data they can buy and sell. The rapid rise of e-commerce on the Internet, combined with increasingly sophisticated data-mining software, has created a new industry in which even the tiniest nuggets of personal data suddenly have market value. for full story, see http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=36d4613c0
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