2000 a privacy Web We Trust
RealNetworks Wilens flatly refused. “Contrary to media reports, we have never observed the behaviour of users or listening habits,” said Keela Robison, product manager for companies located in Seattle. But she admits that RealJukebox, a number of ‘unique identification for each registered user and figures in the same database, username and maintain e-mail. Theoretically, these figures track where people go on the Web. The company publishes a rapidly patch that disabled the ability of software to the issue of identifiers, but it was not enough to satisfy Wilens and others, had a total of more than a dozen complaints against the Real Networks press the key.In the meantime, six other complaints are pending against the advertising networks DoubleClick for the creation of profiles online by consumers. And three other complaints filed against Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon. With few other remedies at their disposal, users have taken the courts to fight for their right to privacy. But the battle has only just begun.
A-list and non-private little war
Welcome to privacy in the new millennium, where surfers are trapped in a fierce battle with Web sites, has on his personal data and what can be done with him. In the PC, for a year and a half-World published its special report “Data Protection in the Internet era” -Commerce erupted, doubling the volume each year. And since the network and the support of most Americans use to transfer messages, buy food, rent movies, you can for medical advice, and perhaps vote for presidential candidates, which had a little privacy they soon disappear.
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