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Net Privacy Enforced

Posted by Hemos on Friday August 14, 1998 @11:33AM from the ftc-doing-good dept.

Cmdr. KillJoy wrote us about the Federal Trade Commision investigating GeoCities. GeoCities has been slapped by the Federal Government for misrepresenting themselves and giving away personal information to advertisers. This story is probably not going to be an isolated one, as the FTC begins to look at ISPs, and sites like this.

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