Word: webbed
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American consumers are braver than they used to be about e-commerce, and yet one out of five surveyed is still uncomfortable buying on the Web. So for all the scaredy-cats out there, here's a news flash: typing your credit-card number into landsend.com is just as safe - if not safer - than reading the number to a catalog's sales rep over the phone. If you really want to go out on a limb, hand your Visa to a waiter. "Consumer fears are overblown," says David Schatsky, e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications. "There's not a whole...
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TRICK OR TREAT Last week the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on Web businesses that entice kids with games and entertainment in exchange for personal information they then sell to marketers. As part of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the FTC now requires companies to e-mail parents for permission before receiving names, addresses, phone numbers or other information from children under 13. The commission also stipulates that the material cannot be shared with other firms...
...subscribers to RealNetworks' RealJukebox downloads a song, the company creates a file that includes the user's musical preference, level of computer savvy and sophistication of computer equipment, as well as a catalog of CDs they've played on their ROM drive. That news set off alarm bells with web privacy advocates, who fear the data could be used to indict Net surfers who use pirated materials such as CDs (sometimes unwittingly). The reaction drew a quick response from RealNetworks, which announced Monday that it was releasing a free software download that would block the program's ability to collect...
...privacy without their permission," says Quittner. "In the case of RealJukebox, it's a banal thing because it's music, but you can extrapolate a little bit and see how it's a problem as we move forward with other types of information. Say it's a health care web site, and now they're compiling all sorts of information about your health." Note to HMOs: You didn't hear that last part...