This sort of thing could very quickly overwhelm a small newspaper or some other organization like that. So it is really hard to study that. Yes, I do. Investors understand when dealing with E-commerce companies that they are dealing with a higher risk. They may have to invest in 18 companies to get one that turns into the next Netscape.
Regulations increase the risk even further, so other industries become more appealing.
And that is just wrong. He can enter a market where customers do care what you do with that information, in which case I don't believe it will be a successful business. On the other hand, he might discover he has stumbled upon a group of customers who just don't care, in which case, then I think that kind of business model is perfectly fine. One interesting thing about this debate is that there seems to be a big discrepancy between asking customers in a survey what they think about privacy and actually looking at their behavior. It's really not worth their time to seek out the privacy stuff.