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An Internet company that provides shopping cart software to online merchants has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it rented personal information about nearly one million customers of its merchants’ to marketers.

Foreign money orders, Internet auctions and prize/sweepstakes/gifts topped the Federal Trade Commission’s list of categories for the most cross-border fraud complaints last year.

Prospect lists for the direct response marketing industry

A Senate committee hearing on consumer data protection and identity theft adjourned early due to seven pressing votes on the Senate floor. The earlier-than-anticipated closing gavel meant that several witnesses, including Don McGuffey, vice president of ChoicePoint Inc., and Barbara Desoer, global technology, service, and fulfillment executive for Bank of America, did not face questions from the committee.

Dennis Publishing Ltd. has chosen Lake Group Media Inc. to represent the
Blender music magazine file. It contains more than 500,000 subscribers.

The top-two teams in the Big East won’t be the only ones facing off Saturday at Madison Square Garden. Winners of separate sweepstakes held by 7 UP and Lincoln Mercury will compete against each other for a chance to win up to $1 Million. 7 UP dangles a …

Procter & Gamble is putting a soundtrack to spring-cleaning. Five P&G brands harmonize on sampler CDs Five of P&G’s cleaning brands are taking part in Take the Bore Out of the Chore, a spring-cleaning promo that gives a CD sampler with purchase. …

ThermaSilk has partnered with rockstar Ashlee Simpson for her first concert tour where she will show off hairstyles using ThermaSilk products. Bonus prizes and face time with Ashlee Simpson support her concert tour with ThermaSilk Celebrity hair …

Not too long ago, a MediaPost article spoke about the author’s trials and tribulations as a result of spyware on his machine. I don’t remember the exact story – I certainly tried finding it albeit not that extensively – but it certainl

Two new instances of consumer data theft came to light the day before a Senate Committee was to convene a hearing on the compiled information industry and identity theft.