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Senator Urges FTC to Action on Website Privacy

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In a July 1 press release, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) asked the “Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue a consumer advisory alert warning Internet users to carefully read the privacy policies of websites asking for personal information and to develop guidelines to ensure that these privacy policies fully disclose how that data will be used.”

  • Schumer’s Letter to the FTC
  • F.T.C. Increases Focus on Privacy, New York Times, June 30, 2003. “The technology consulting firm Forrester Research estimates that 7 percent of online customers are victims of identity theft — crimes that often result from hackers stealing credit card and other confidential data from Web sites. But identity theft victims have not reported the Web sites to public authorities in great numbers, for reasons including a lack of knowledge where personal information had been stolen from.”
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