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MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE — FREE MARKET AND PRIVACY PROTECTION

PRIVACY AND THE FREE MARKET ON THE INTERNET ARE ANTITHETICAL CONCEPTS

Jeff Angus, InformationWeek, September 6, 1999, Pg. 72, TITLE: Your Choice: Free Market Or Privacy // acs-VT2001

Our culture tends to look for an easy reason for a big event. Usually, like the birth of a hurricane, there is no single trigger, but the convergence of several conditions at the same time. I believe the confluence of the omnipresent Internet with a lower-cost model for business-intelligence software is going to create a conflagration that will pit two powerful principles against each other.

Ironically, many influential people have both close to their hearts. The coming war is between privacy and the free market-two mutually exclusive, antithetical concepts.

PRIVACY STOPS THE FREE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION THE FREE MARKET REQUIRES

Jeff Angus, InformationWeek, September 6, 1999, Pg. 72, TITLE: Your Choice: Free Market Or Privacy // acs-VT2001

The limiting factor is the will to harvest and analyze competitive intelligence from Internet data. The privacy principle demands the right of every individual and entity to personal privacy. The free-market principle demands unregulated pursuit of products and customers.