The Commission today issues its third report on the extent to which self-regulation is providing or is likely to provide protection for consumers against unjustified invasions of privacy in the online world. Choice which offers the opportunity for consumers to decide whether they want their personally identifiable information to be used for any purpose other than completion of the transaction.
Choice encompasses both internal and external uses of such information.
Reasonable access by consumers to review the information collected on them and a reasonable opportunity to correct any errors or delete the information. Adequate security within the company as to how information will be handled. In some respects, self-regulation continues to improve levels of consumer protection. That is up from 66 percent in 1999 and 14 percent in 1998. In many other respects, however, progress in self-regulation has been disappointing.