Collecting private information remains an attraction for both government and commerce alike. Managers of Websites want to know as much about users as possible, in the perhaps mistaken belief that they can read their minds and influence their conduct. And they usually don't want consumers to know that they are looking in. Hence the soft approach to self-regulation. To date, commercial sites have responded to consumer privacy demands by posting ambiguous privacy policies and by appointing corporate privacy officers.
Privacy tends to represent a marketable virtue, rather than a reality.
According to former FTC Chairman Pitofsky, only 20 percent of data-collecting Websites offer tough measures to ensure privacy. Another solution to ensuring privacy might be the same as avoiding censorship. Files are broken up, encrypted, and positioned at random. Placement and downloading of content is equally anonymous. All rights reserved.