Politech: FC: UPenn privacy study says kids sell out parents; financial privacy

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:48:13 -0700
> Subject: paper by Richard Rahn
> From: "Margaret Rogers" <mrogers () noveconfinancial com>
> To: declan () well com
>
> Dear Declan,
>
> I thought that your readers might be interested in Dr. Rahn's recent paper
> about financial privacy and anti-money laundering legislation,"End the "Bank
> Anti-Secrecy" Assault on Financial Privacy" which has been published on the
> Competitive Enterprise Institute's website. The paper can be found at:
>
> http://www.cei.org/OnPointReader.asp?ID=980.
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> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:42:59 -0400
> From: "Christopher D. Hunter" <chunter () asc upenn edu>
> Organization: University of Pennsylvania
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Subject: new privacy study
>
> Declan,
>
> Politech readers may be interested in the results of the Annenberg
> Public Policy Center's "The Internet and The Family 2000" survey.  The
> most interesting results show a major disconnect between what
> information parents would allow their children to release to web sites,
> and what information children (and teens) think is okay to release.
>
> press release:
> http://www.appcpenn.org/final_release_fam.pdf
>
>
> full report:
> http://www.appcpenn.org/finalrepor_fam.pdf
>
>
> Best,
>
> Christopher D. Hunter
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Annenberg School for Communication
> University of Pennsylvania
> 215-732-4612
> chunter () asc upenn edu
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/
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> From: "Rodger, William" <wrodger () usatoday com>
> To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
> Subject: two-thirds of kids will sell out parents for online business inte
>         rests
> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:02:54 -0400
> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
>
> Declan --
>
> Here's an aspect of the privacy debate central to the COPPA law but
> conspicuously absent from your list.
>
>
> W.
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>                  05/16/00- Updated 07:18 AM ET
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>
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>                   Study: Kids offer facts online for gifts
>
>                   WASHINGTON (AP) - Many children feel comfortable giving
> out personal
>                   family information on the Internet in exchange for free
> gifts and sweepstakes,
>                   an independent study finds.
>
>                   In exchange for a free gift, about two-thirds of children
> ages 10-17 said they
>                   would provide commercial Web site operators with the names
> of their
>                   favorite stores and more than half would give their
> parents' favorites,
>                   according to the study released Tuesday by the University
> of Pennsylvania's
>                   Annenberg Public Policy Center.
>
>                   ''Parents need to better understand the Web's ability to
> track information,
>                   and kids need to be engaged in serious discussions with
> their parents about
>                   privacy and sharing information,'' said Joseph Turow,
> author of the report.
>
>                   ''Web sites have the ability to collect and bring together
> information and
>                   create a profile of kids and eventually their families.''
>
>                   Nearly all parents questioned said their children should
> have parental
>                   consent before giving information online.
>
>                   While about three-quarters of the children agreed, their
> caution disappeared
>                   when enticed by a free gift, Turow said.
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