U.S. report on Net commerce set for release; key recommendations stress self-regulation

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A long-awaited report is scheduled to be released, on Nov 30, 1998, by Ira Magaziner's Federal interagency working group in electronic commerce. The report recommends strengthened consumer protection and privacy rights, but at the same time, it calls for self-regulation and favors an overall laissez-faire approach. The report says self-regulation in the digital age will require greater collective action to establish and enforce rules than was characteristic of the Industrial Age. Among those who disagrees with Magaziner is Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Rotenberg says laws are needed to protect consumer interests and personal data. He says the US is moving in a direction that could eventually precipitate a trade war with Europe, where self-regulation is regarded as incompatible with strong laws guaranteeing privacy protections.

On-Line Information Services, Government regulation, Videotex & Teletext, Telegraph & other communications, Laws, regulations and rules, Reports, Telecommunications regulations, Online services, Internet services, Privacy issue, Privacy, Clinton, Bill, Economic policy, Science and technology policy, Electronic commerce, E-commerce, Industry regulations, Government communications regulation, Government regulation of business, Trade regulation, Gore, Albert, Jr., Free enterprise, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Rotenberg, Marc, Magaziner, Ira C.

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I.B.M. vows to pull ads from Web sites that lack clear policies on protecting consumer privacy

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When IBM discovered that most of the Internet sites where it advertises didn't have consumer privacy policies posted, it instituted a policy of its own: the second largest Internet advertiser will pull its ad from any site that doesn't post one by June 1st. Last year IBM spent about $45 million in online advertising and plans to spend about $60 million in l999. IBM has had a history of concern for consumer privacy, so this is just an extension of that concern in an industry that hopes to be able to regulate itself.

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The computer giant takes consumer privacy seriously

Electronic computers, Computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Marketing procedures, Computer and Office Equipment, Office & Computing Machines, New Electronic Marketing, Advertising Activity, Ethics, Office equipment, Computer industry, Digital computers, Marketing, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Advertising, Abstract

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