Washington Focus: Privacy: The Two-Minute Warning Has Sounded

Daniel L. Jaffe

In this regular look at topical ethical and legal issues in the USA, the ANA reports on privacy and the Internet as at August 1998.

Washington Focus

Privacy: the two-minute warning has sounded

Daniel L. Jaffe ANA

Regulators have issued a two-minute warning to the online community, signaling that time is running out to provide meaningful privacy protection for Internet users. When the final gun sounds, new laws and regulations for Internet commerce are likely to move ahead, unless online businesses launch a real self-regulatory offensive now.

Commerce Secretary William Daley recently opened a summit on electronic privacy with the challenge that privacy 'is the make-or-break issue for all of electronic commerce.' Daley warned that industry must move more swiftly to draft an effective...

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