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Nothing to Yahoo Over New E-Rules
The new rules of Internet commerce are becoming increasingly public.

As is your privacy.

Internet users are being besieged with spam, spyware and snoopy websites that demand personal information and seemingly track users' every move.

This has led e-business watchers and privacy advocates to wonder if their worst fears have been realized: that an uncertain economy has forced companies to push aside the already-fragile issue of privacy concerns in favor of the search for higher profits. [Wired]

Corporate suicide in action, is what this all amounts to. By pushing these privacy issues, they are creating a backlash that will kill many more legitimate companies. The misuse of private information will serve to benefit no one and in the end will only worsen the magnitude of the dotbomb disaster...mj
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