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The privacy principle.(government surveys corporate Internet users regarding regulations on protecting privacy)

Security Management, April, 1999 by Neeley, DeQuendre

The Commerce Dept and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have made moves to protect US companies doing online business in Europe from the European Union's privacy directives on the Internet and at the same time enact legislation on corporate privacy in the Internet. The Commerce Dept has been negotiating with Union officials for safe harbor regulations for US firms to protect them from sanctions imposed by the new rules. The FTC, for its part, has conducted a survey to determine whether private industry will be regulated or left alone to govern itself.

Everyone agrees that protection of confidential data on the Web and on company networks is essential, but a debate is raging over how that protection should be achieved.

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