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[ PRIVACY Forum ] FTC seeks new privacy legislation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Tue Apr 10 19:15:33 2012

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FTC seeks new privacy legislation

http://j.mp/HHuqhC  (New York Times)

  "The government's chief consumer protection agency said on Monday that
   it intended to take direct aim at the vast industry that has grown up
   around the buying and selling of information about American consumers."

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Internet services in the process.

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