Foreword
Advances in technology have brought a revolution in the waypeople interact with one another and do business. Through thedemocratizing medium of the Internet, ordinary citizens now havea low-cost means of communicating with others around the world.But the same technology that promotes free speech and easy accessto information also poses a serious threat to the right to privacy.As the Internet grows, so do concerns about the use of informationcollected by the operators of sites on the World Wide Web.Online commerce has made it easier than ever for businessesto gather information about individual citizens and use it formarketing purposes without consumer knowledge…
