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Senators Introduce Bill Limiting Sales of Children’s Lists
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Ted Stevens (R-AK) introduced legislation March 4 that would ban the sale or rental of personal information on consumers under
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Consultant Predicts Enron of Privacy
Get ready, it’s coming: Sometime over the next two years, a major U.S. company is going to do something so bad that it will make all prior privacy scandals
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DMA Appoints Search Firm to Replace Wientzen
Executive search firm Spencer Stuart has been chosen to help pick the successor to Direct Marketing Association president H. Robert Wientzen. The DMA
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Go Ahead, Leave Home Without It
I’m so old I remember when the American Express Platinum Card had cachet. It cost $300 a year ($395 now), surrounded by no-fee competitors, but the Platinum
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Big ISPs File Suits Under Can Spam
The four biggest Internet service providers America Online, Earthlink, Microsoft and Yahoo! have filed the first major industry lawsuits under the new
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Ready for Its Closeup
Whether it’s a determined clownfish, a web-slinging boy wonder or a style-setting rap artist, the right match between an entertainment property and a
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Seeing Green in Lavender
In the grandest tradition of political timidity, I am going to bravely not take a stance on gay weddings. The Democrats and Republicans already have announced
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Postal Transformation, Italian Style
In the late 1990s, the Italian post office found itself in a situation that many of its European counterparts knew all too well: The Internet and private
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Nick Uses Its Noggin
This month and next, General Growth Properties will bring Nickelodeon’s Noggin brand into a handful of malls with Club Noggin centers. They will test
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That’s Entertainment (and Art)
The History Channel’s e-commerce Web site carries 16 video or DVD sets featuring German air might. By any standard this is a lot of Luftwaffe, but A&E