If Congress adopts the old method of machine to human communication, and companies find out users are willing to give up more of their data that way, then they would be motivated to use the less effective method. Congress should be aware of this situation and work to really protect the consumer and the data that they ultimately own. Results indicated that certain types of personal information were more sensitive than others, especially credit card, social security, and phone numbers. People were very concerned when information would be shared with third parties. Other concerns were automatic data transfers and unsolicited communications, where users preferred to take action themselves to submit information, and disliked the idea of having their information used by third parties for marketing purposes.
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This allows domains that did not set a cookie to read one that has been set in this special way. Problem lies with the implementation of the protocol specifications by the browser companies. This article is a real eyeopener to the real direction of the possibilities of privacy invasion on the Net. Saying that self regulation is ineffective, the study found companioies are trying to solicit information from children without their parents knowledge. Congress could wade into the issue proposing new legislation, even though one expert says it will take government some time before they get a handle on Internet privacy.