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A new antispyware coalition has been announced. Before reading anything more, remember that the primary people screaming for standards in defining spyware are the adware vendors. I was immediately suspicious at the spyware conference a few weeks ago when all the spyware vendors were talking about “the need to create standards”, and a journalist I […]

An interesting and somewhat depressing report by the Annenberg Public Policy Center . Read it here. The study, entitled “Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline“, has tidbits like this: The study indicates that many adults who use the internet believe incorrectly that laws prevent online and offline stores from selling their personal information. […]

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Paul Roberts of eWeek writes about the AOL Netscape 8 Trust Rating.

In a surprising move, Sean Sundwall, Senior Corporate PR Manager at Microsoft, is taking the job of Director of Corporate Communications at 180Solutions/Zango.com. Yup. It’s really true. He starts next Monday. Alex Eckelberry

An update of my prior blog on this issue. The LA Times recently wrote (reg. required) about more privacy consequences of this law which will have a significant effect on your privacy. From the article: “But once the law takes full effect three years from now, it will also give many more bureaucrats access to […]

Read it here. Alex

Hot off the presses: Ben Edelman just posted a detailed writeup. Why the big deal? AOL Netscape (nee Netscape) is assigning a trust rating based on certifications. Certifications are useless for trust ratings, because all they do is certify what they are supposed to certify–such as “is the traffic in a SSL browser session secure?”. […]

(Part one in an informal series on the absolute uselessness of current certifcation practices…more later). The new Netscape has a trust rating, explained here. According to their website: The Netscape Browser is equipped with a web site rating system called “Trust Ratings” which is driven by lists of sites provided by our trusted security partners. […]

This just out. Morgan Stanley’s report on the spyware market. Read it here. Note: We have not reviewed the material to determine accuracy, a quintillion disclaimers apply, etc.