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Can E-Commerce Police Itself?



The issue of Internet privacy seemed to dominate much of the e-commerce
terrain last week as President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Senate Commerce
Committee waded knee-deep into the fray. 

According to published reports, Clinton gave high-tech industry leaders a
stern warning last Friday, telling them that they must quickly adopt
minimum privacy standards or have the government do it for them. 

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/viewpoint2000/view-000307-1.shtml

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Lisa Potter
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill