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EPIC Criticizes Top 100 Sites' Privacy

Posted by jamie on from the interesting-data dept.

EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, has released "Surfer Beware III," a report that claims "few of the 100 most popular shopping websites provide adequate privacy protections for consumers." It's apparently the combination of collecting personal information and delivering profilers' cookies that has them the most concerned. Catchiest quote: "someone other than Santa is reading our Christmas list. These profiling companies know when we are buying and when we are online."

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  1. This is sad, real sad... (read this) by Microlith · · Score: 2

    Not only the actual subject of this article but...

    Rob, Jeff, all of you. This is sad. One post on a potentially important issue. Again, another article passes by unnoticed. How many have been missed in the BSD? YRO (one of the more important ones?)? How many will be missed in your new Science section?

    You really, REALLY, need to make the sections more prominent. And by default, make ALL articles show up on the main page, and let people hide the ones they don't want. My opinion? Replace the Features Slashbox with the Sections. Make it stand out. Most of what's in the features box is rehashed, old info (Hellmouth, Geeks in Space), and hasn't been touched since August (Update: 08/26 01:48 by hemos).

    Neglect is bad, but unintentional neglect is worse, because you don't often realize it's happening.