These news articles are selected for the their importance and long-term value. We make no attempt to capture daily news. For those wanting daily updates we suggest searching the Web news and newswires using the search terms consumer privacy and privacy . Right Privacy has been a consumer concern since the very beginning of electronic commerce. It's a natural out-growth of the information age.
Electronic security is a maturing market.
There is a simple, but not so apparent, reason. As psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists know, privacy is about culture and people, not about electronic security. To overcome the weaknesses of today's approaches to privacy, Web sites must be designed to build consumer confidence in a company's privacy policy. The Web provides companies with unique tools to build consumer confidence through interactive user privacy environments.