Online Privacy: Ensuring Consumers' Right to Know

Robin Webster

The author outlines privacy laws in the USA, and puts forward an argument for self-regulation, especially in the area of online profiling of consumers responding to Internet web sites.

Online Privacy: Ensuring Consumers' Right To Know

Robin WebsterANA.

Protection of consumer privacy both on and offline continues to be a topic of significant concern for industry, government, and the public alike. In the past six weeks, no less than three critical events related to the legislation of privacy-related issues have taken place. In late October, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final rule to implement the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). Additionally, a recent major revision to the nation's banking laws contains updated privacy provisions, while in the healthcare arena President Clinton has issued...

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