Jason Catlett
Jason Catlett
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Our usual practice is to talk to the companies concerned before the press,
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My initial concept was deplorably vague. All I knew was that the Internet and privacy were on a collision course.
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I think privacy policies may be getting worse. They're getting longer, more difficult to understand, and filled with more loopholes.
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Responses to direct marketing are dropping in general. More and more people just throw mail away - especially unmarked mail - without opening it.
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We regard this as information that Intel behaved deceptively.
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By synchronizing cookies with name and address from e-mail, registrations, and e-commerce transactions, the merged company would have a surveillance database of Orwellian proportions,
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If you're taking your laptop to Paris and you have to download your e-mail over an expensive long-distance phone call, you still have to download that stuff even if it's junked before you see it. It's really sweeping the cost under the carpet.
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I guess it would be difficult, given the appalling state of Internet privacy, for the FTC to again recommend against federal privacy law,
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It's intolerable that e-mail can be used to silently zap a name tag onto you that might be scanned by a site you visit later. It's like secretly bar-coding people with invisible ink,
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That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas,
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Engage has done many good things to protect privacy, but my worry is they are firing the starting gun in the race for the bottom,
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It shows that we're on a downhill slope. Companies, as they go into bankruptcy or find out more about the legal risks, tend to erect reinforcements around their posteriors. That's bad for the consumer.
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The worst actors will be left to use the most sophisticated surveillance techniques as they please.
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They all find out that you opened the mail and they get an invisible tracking number, so if you go to a store ... that number is reported to them and they can build that information into a database,