:E-Commerce Times: Internet Self-Regulation Dead on Arrival
E-Commerce Times: Internet Self-Regulation Dead on Arrival Mar 31, 2000, 15 :11 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2888 reads) (Other stories by Chet Dembeck)
"If the wave of legal activity and negative publicity that
has swamped online advertising agency DoubleClick is
any indication, then attempts to self-regulate the
Internet have been an abysmal failure."
"In fact, a new report from Forrester Research suggests
that government regulation of e-commerce privacy issues are now a
foregone conclusion."
"The research firm goes so far as to identify the recent uproar over
DoubleClick's plans to combine consumer surfing-pattern data with offline
purchase patterns from its Abacus subsidiary as the ultimate lightning rod."
