Jason Catlett
Jason Catlett
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We regard this as information that Intel behaved deceptively.
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There's an absence of consumer rights and a large number of small actors who are mostly criminals. Dealing with them is like swatting flies one by one, rather than putting up a fence to keep out all the dogs.
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It shows that we're on a downhill slope. Companies, as they go into bankruptcy or find out more about the legal risks, tend to erect reinforcements around their posteriors. That's bad for the consumer.
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A common tactic in direct mail is to disguise the nature of the solicitation and send you something that doesn't indicate what's inside, to make you open the envelope. People aren't opening the 'mystery envelopes' right now.
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The Internet reduces the cost of gathering information about consumers to practically zero, ... Sending a piece of direct mail to a household costs about one dollar, so no one is going to send you 10,000 pieces of mail, but the cost of contacting you in the online world is virtually zero.
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That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas,
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If you're taking your laptop to Paris and you have to download your e-mail over an expensive long-distance phone call, you still have to download that stuff even if it's junked before you see it. It's really sweeping the cost under the carpet.
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My initial concept was deplorably vague. All I knew was that the Internet and privacy were on a collision course.
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Engage has done many good things to protect privacy, but my worry is they are firing the starting gun in the race for the bottom,
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Our usual practice is to talk to the companies concerned before the press,
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I think privacy policies may be getting worse. They're getting longer, more difficult to understand, and filled with more loopholes.
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Advertisers are already watching where people go on sites and now they're trying to get details of what is actually bought. Companies holding personal profiles should be required by law to handle the information with extreme care and only use it for the primary authorized purpose.