Salon Interview with TrustE CEO Bob Lewin

bmc wrote to us about an interview that is currently running over at Salon.com. Salon is talking with Bob Lewin, the CEO of TrustE. Honestly, it's depressing. There's a real dearth of legislation that will protect privacy rights ^[?] and even groups like TrustE have loopholes the size of Mack trucks.

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TRUSTe is a scam

[russ-smith]

I have filed numerous TRUSTe complaints. they have not resolved any of them.

Some tricks they use: they claim AOL.com is covered by the TRUSTe seal until you file a complaint. they then claim only www.aol.com is covered but members.aol.com is NOT covered. This means if you visit www.aol.com to get information you are covered ... but, if you actually join and give them your personal information you are not covered!

Any web site can set up 2 sites www.example.com that has the TRUSTe scam seal and then set up a second site www2.example.com that collects the personal info and avoids the requirements of the seal. What a joke!

Other complaints where sites do have the TRUSe seal simply go unanswered (Geocities, Real Networks, New York Times, etc). this is not surprising since TRUSTe is funded by fees paid from these companies. Pople who complain don't pay anything.

Russ Smith
http://privacy.net