July 17, 2003
* 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."

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