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Internet Privacy 

Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is the leading agency, within the US, in developing laws to regulate privacy standards.  The FTC’s Web site contains educational materials on consumer privacy and many other useful links to:

• FTC privacy policy

• FTC privacy initiatives

• Reports, letters, and news releases on the online privacy protection issue

• Articles including "Sharing Your Personal Information: It's Your Choice"

• A brochure entitled "Site Seeing on the Internet"

• and public comments

The FTC monitors many Internet sites and brings enforcement actions when it’s appropriate.  Recently GeoCities (one of the most popular Internet Web sites) has agreed to settle FTC charges for collecting personal information from children and adults under misrepresentation.  The Web site has not disclosed to its consumers what information is being collected, for what purposes, and to whom it will be disclosed.