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Mark Rasch, 2006-08-28

In the age of personal information versus aggregated information collected from search engines and other Internet services, one's privacy can no longer be assured. Mark Rasch looks at a recent Amazon patent application that shows how the laws need to be tightened because the lines of privacy are becoming blurred.

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Anonymous No More 2006-08-28
Alexandre Hamelin
Not to mention the personal sales giant eBay. They not only know what kind of items you're seeking, but also what you owned in the past. But oh well, they've already got your bank account information.

It looks like massive information trading is more successful than ever with the exponentially gr...

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Spain's case 2006-08-29
Juan Alvarez Ferrando
Hi,

The spanish law that develops the EU directives about personal data protection, and If my memery is right, also the EU directive itself, do no restrict the scope of protection to data that contains some kind of ID datum, but to anythign that can lead to the identity of the person without an u...

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anti-theft solutions 2006-08-29
Anonymous
"Privacy laws, both in the United States and abroad generally protect the collection, dissemination and use of ?personally identifiable information? of various types and classes...Aggregated information, on the other hand is not generally afforded the same level of protection."

As unfortunate as ...

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Anonymous no more 2006-09-06
Me Again
I always tend to take a walk on the "wild side" and visit my local Barnes & Noble in person. If they don't have the book - I order it. Oh, and I also pay in cash....

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