Recent Privacy News What are You Afraid Of? A Hidden Issue Emerges (June 4, 2000) (New York Times) - Pollsters reveal that privacy is a huge issue for Americans and may be central to the political debate for this election year. [ more ] FTC Asks Congress for Online Privacy Laws (May 22, 2000) (Industry Standard) - In a presentation to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the FTC presented a year-long study, asking Congress to pass privacy laws. The study called for Congress to pass laws to guarantee "a basic level of privacy protection for consumer-oriented commercial websites." The study says only 42 percent of the top sites adequately follow the FTC's fair information practices. [ more ] Anonymous Surfer Sues Yahoo Over Privacy (May 12, 2000) (Industry Standard) - An anonymous Internet user has filed a civil lawsuit against Yahoo! Inc. This lawsuit comes following the announcement of an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission into some of Yahoo!'s consumer information practices. The FTC has requested information from the Internet portal about its practices to see if they comply with federal consumer protection laws. [ more ] TRUSTe Attempts to Penalize MotherNature.Com (March 22, 2000) (Industry Standard) - Health-product site MotherNature.com ... continues to display the TRUSTe seal of approval even though its license expired in January. [ more ] 85% of Consumers Believe Privacy is the Most Important Issue Facing the Internet (March 6, 2000) (eMarketer) - According to a recent survey by the Gallup Organization done for the online marketing firm @plan, recent hacker attacks have dampened e-consumer shoppers enthusiasm buying online. [ more ] Doubleclick Makes an About-Face on Privacy Policy (March 6, 2000) (New York Times) - Privacy advocates were relieved last week when DoubleClick Inc., the Internet's biggest supplier of banner advertising, announced that it would put a hold on its plan to link personal identities and other information to anonymous data it collects about Internet users. [ more ] Copyright 2000 PrivacyOne, Inc.  All rights reserved.