December 18, 1998
Industry Standard: Reading the Fine Print on Privacy.
Center for Democracy and Technology launches new Privacy Watchdog site to provide information
and survey users on privacy initiatives at other sites.
Wired News: 'Sun Violated My Privacy'.
Sun customer upset after opting out of receiving offers and mailings from Sun's business partners but still received solications.
The Economist: Bad news for trees.
Despite the advent of electronic books, ever more information will go on meaning ever more paper...
Red Herring: Search engines graduate to funding.
Google and Direct Hit both raise funding for their second-generation search engines.
Computer Shopper: Search tools and portals seek more accurate results.
Ask Jeeves, Alexa, Real Names and DirectHit are some of the tools mentioned that are trying to provide quality searches.
Freedom Forum: Amid impeachment, 2 newsmagazines feature entertainment.
Jon Katz.
Web Review: Closing Out the Web Year.
A look back at a web year, "We want the Web to serve as a foundation, as a platform."
ZDNN: @Home acquires Narrative.
Narrative and their Enliven interactive ad technology become a unit of @Home for $89 million dollars.
NY Times: Governments Expand Restrictions On Internet, Report Says.
Fifty years after the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with its guarantee of free expression for all, the world's newest form of mass communication is under attack around the globe from laws, policies and police actions seeking to restrict content.
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