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Consumers Desire More Online Privacy Protection

Consumers report an unwillingness to purchase items online as a result of security and privacy violations. Online profiling and the use of cookies and web bugs are discouraging consumers from entering the Internet marketplace.

Study: Most Internet users wary of e-commerce, CNN.com (AP), March 18, 2001.