Public Underestimates Website Privacy Standards
Three Things You Don't Want to Know About Your Personal Information: "Online merchants are frantically sucking up every scrap of information they can get about consumers, but consumers know next to nothing about what happens to that information."
Also see New Annenberg Report Examines Americans' Understanding of Online Privacy.
Yahoo! and Your Personal Information: "Yahoo's public records search offers very basic information, but for a fee, you might be surprised at all of the information about yourself that can be found online."