Can I Get Some Privacy?

Mon., Oct. 30, 2000

Compiled By Bill Sallquist

Privacy experts use one word to describe people who assume that their personal data are safe at a Web site with a fancy privacy policy: gullible.

One privacy advocate says such policies are “not worth the pixels they’re printed on.”

While Web businesses tout privacy policies as preferable to government regulation, critics say that the policies can be hard to understand, misleading, or openly hostile to consumer privacy.

Knight Ridder

* To catch a thief: One of the chief advantages of laptop computers - their portability - is also one of their main drawbacks.

Small size and high cost make them a prime target for thieves. But a new family of products could make it harder for thieves to escape undetected.

Solutions range from motion-detection alarms to software that tracks a computer’s whereabouts on the Internet and heavy cable locks customized to bolt onto PCs.

Boston Globe

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