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Summary Page
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We help you bust the junk messages out of your life
Telemarketing Headlines
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How to reduce junk phone calls
Junk Mail Headlines
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How you can gain control of your mailbox
Privacy Headlines
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How to protect your privacy from commercial invasions
Junk Email (Spam) Headlines
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Spamming must be stopped
Declare Headlines
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How to tell direct marketers what you want and don't want
Internet JUNKBUSTER Headlines
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Bust the junk out of your web browsing
The Mission of JUNKBUSTERS
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...is to free the world from junk communications ·
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We give you the tools to stop junk ·
What we don't do ·
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We don't take money from consumers ·
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We don't give legal advice ·
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We aren't a non-profit organization ·
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We don't try to influence your opinions ·
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We aren't opposed to direct marketing, just its unwanted messages
A Brief History of Junk
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What is junk? ·
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Junk is stuff that you don't want or need ·
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Junk messages are delivered through various media ·
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Junk mail: do you get enough? ·
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Junk Phone Calls: Are you a fugitive in your own home? ·
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Junk Visits: Death of the salesman? ·
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Junk Faxes: Would you pay for the printing of your junk mail? ·
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Junk Data: Heard the wholesale electronic gossip about you? ·
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Junk Email: A thousand solicitations for the price of a stamp ·
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Junk Hi-tech Messaging: Does the road ahead lead to a world of a billion ghettos? ·
A Declaration of Independence from the Tyranny of Junk ·
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For junk to prevail, it suffices that consumers do nothing
A Sample JUNKBUSTERS Declaration
About JUNKBUSTERS Declarations
Menu of Services
Site Map
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A birds-eye view of our site ·
List of Page Titles
Table of Contents
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How to use this page ·
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Searching for keywords ·
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The symbols explained ·
The Table ·
Other Navigational Aids and Subject Guide
Why Should Direct Marketers Comply?
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We have faith in voluntary compliance ·
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For most direct marketers, it's clearly the better choice ·
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Declarations of permission and prohibition help everybody ·
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No more excuses ·
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The customer is always right, especially in groups of millions
Scenarios for Enforcement Services
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We do not offer enforcement services ·
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We do not think they will be necessary ·
DARTSORT: automating bulk email opt-out messages ·
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Consumers now have the power to send bulk mail too ·
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If businesses can share lists of consumers' names and addresses... ·
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On the Internet, everyone knows you can bulk mail ·
DOOMCALL: The ``killer app'' for opt-out technologies ·
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DARTSORT would quickly become obsolete ·
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What might a DOOMCALL sound like to telemarketers? ·
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How a customer might order DOOMCALL services ·
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List logs provide a convenient record of notification ·
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You've got their number ·
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DOOMCALL would be very economical (to consumers) ·
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Dying for some payback? ·
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A new cottage industry of part-time opt-out rebels ·
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Consolidators turn independent cottage suppliers into a national network ·
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Isn't there a law against this kind of thing? ·
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But all this is so unnecessary
Anti-Telemarketing Script
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Telemarketers always use a script: why shouldn't you? ·
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What to say when they call if you don't want junk calls
U.S. Laws on Telemarketing
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Telemarketing, past, present and future ·
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The U.S. Congress suggested a nationwide do-not-call database... ·
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...but the FCC preferred another option ·
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Transnational outbound telemarketing ·
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Caution: legal jargon ahead ·
Background information about these FCC documents ·
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Sources ·
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A brief legislative history ·
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The FCC's summary of the TCPA ·
From Subpart L - Restrictions on Telephone Solicitation ·
Actions against violative calls ·
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(5) PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.-- ·
Excerpts from FCC-92-443 ·
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III.B.10: Alternatives to restrict telephone solicitations to residences ·
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III.B.22 ·
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III.B.23 ·
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III.E.1 ·
Excerpts from FCC-95-310 (plus our quibble) ·
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Background ·
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(Our quibble with the FCC's figures) ·
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This order ·
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The Direct Marketing Association's request ·
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Subscriber identification ·
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The ten year rule ·
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Not more than nominal costs
U.S. Laws on Direct Mail
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An American's mailbox is also part of his castle ·
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They claimed the right to send you any junk they want... ·
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...but their arguments were rejected by the Supreme Court ·
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U.S. Post Office Form 2150, ``Prohibitory order against sender'' ·
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Direct marketers presume unless told otherwise ·
U.S. Supreme Court Appeal 397 U. S. 728 ·
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Syllabus and Opinion of the Court ·
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I. Background and Congressional Objectives ·
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II. First Amendment Contention ·
39 USC Section 3008 ·
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(Variously referred to as 4009, 4009a above) ·
Other relevant judgments ·
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U.S. Supreme Court Appeal 341 U.S. 622 ·
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Pitt on the sanctity of the private home ·
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Brandeis on the Fourth Amendment ·
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Tillman v. Distribution Systems of America ·
Junkbusters' proposal for a Do-Not-Mail registry ·
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Open letter 9/26 from Junkbusters to Members of Congress
Guide to Reducing Junk
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How to dejunk your communications channels ·
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First, the headlines ·
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``Why are you telling me all this?'' ·
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The junk juggernauts move very slowly ·
The awesome telemarketing machine ·
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``How can I get my number off telemarketers' lists?'' ·
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``What should I do when I get a telemarketing call?'' ·
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Telling telemarketing bureaus not to call you ·
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``How can I report telemarketers who call me illegally?'' ·
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``Can I sue companies for illegal telemarketing practices?'' ·
Direct mail and how to direct it out of your life ·
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``What determines the junk mail that I get?'' ·
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``How did they get my name?'' ·
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``What are the two code numbers above my name for?'' ·
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``How can I get my name and address off direct mailers' lists?'' ·
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The Direct Marketing Association's Preference Services ·
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Opting out from list vendors ·
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Credit bureaus' opt-out lists ·
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Sending junk back ·
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Prohibitory orders against sender ·
Other forms of junk communications ·
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Junk faxes and junk pages ·
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Junk email (spam) ·
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Junk text messages to cellphones (junk SMS)
How Web Servers' Cookies Threaten Your Privacy
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You can be tracked from your mouse clicks ·
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The pages you read tell marketers what junk to push on you ·
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What your browser tells them ·
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How they can find out who you are ·
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Cookies tell them it's you every time you click ·
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How to disable cookies ·
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How and why you should disable ActiveX, VBS, Java and Javascript ·
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What other privacy-invading features should I disable? ·
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Other things you can do to protect your privacy on the Web
Frequently-Asked Questions
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Actually, not so frequently asked ·
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This FAQ section is for more the unusual questions ·
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Won't writing opt out letters put my name on even more lists? ·
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Am I reducing my own privacy by asking to be taken off lists? ·
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Isn't opting out a violation of direct marketers' right to free speech? ·
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How can I stop mail addressed to a relative who is no longer living? ·
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I wish I'd heard about you before. Why don't you advertise? ·
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How do you make money? ·
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If you want direct marketers to cooperate, how come you dump on them so much? ·
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You don't seem to be maximizing your gains. Are you a non-profit organization? ·
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Why is your Web site so visually boring?
Links to Other Resources
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The Wide World of Junk ·
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About this collection ·
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New and Noteworthy ·
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Fundamental issues of privacy ·
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Junk communications as invasions of privacy ·
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Junk Mail ·
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Telemarketing ·
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Reducing junk marketing communications ·
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Junk and privacy on the Internet ·
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Cookies ·
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Anti-cookie measures ·
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Targeted web advertising ·
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Filtering and blocking banner ads and other unwanted material ·
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Junk email (spam) ·
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Software for filtering and blocking spam ·
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Upstream technologies for blocking spam ·
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Legal issues in direct marketing
Welcome to Visitors from Outside the USA
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What's specific to the USA and other countries ·
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Some junk is international ·
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Australia ·
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Canada ·
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Hong Kong ·
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New Zealand ·
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United Kingdom ·
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Other countries
Pages and Links in Other Languages
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``Consumers of the world, unite!'' ·
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You have nothing to lose but your junk ·
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Czech ·
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Danish ·
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Dutch ·
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Esperanto ·
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Finnish ·
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French ·
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German ·
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Greek ·
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Hebrew ·
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Hungarian ·
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Icelandic ·
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Italian ·
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Japanese ·
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Korean ·
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Norse (Norwegian) ·
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Portuguese ·
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Russian ·
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Slovak ·
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Spanish ·
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Swedish ·
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Other languages
Don Aslett on Dejunking
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Not all junk can be blamed on direct marketing ·
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The enemy within: household junk
Guide to the Interpretation of Declarations
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Background information ·
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Why we publish this guide ·
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Definition of a solicitation ·
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Classification of organizations ·
Exemptions ·
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Exemptions relating to the provision of data ·
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Exemptions relating to contact
Information for Direct Marketers
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The Empowered Consumer: Problem or Opportunity? ·
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A preview of Direct Marketing in the 21st Century ·
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The wide spectrum of reactions ·
Shock, Fear, Grief, etc. ·
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If you have it, get over it ·
``Your Name Here'' ·
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Why most companies will want to be named in Declarations ·
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How to publish a request on your Web site ·
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Registering your Single Point of Contact (SPOC) ·
Getting and Using Declarations ·
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How can direct marketers get copies of consumers' Declarations? ·
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Non-published Declarations will be available under license later ·
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All Declarations are currently unverified ·
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Try using Declaration permissions in your response models ·
``Is this the end of the world for DM service industries?'' (No.) ·
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What about the TSRs? ·
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What about the OTM vendors? ·
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What about the list brokers and list managers? ·
Why litigation may not be a good move ·
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It would probably make matters worse ·
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Consider what would happen if we disappeared
Headlines for Businesses
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We aim to assist the reformation of direct marketing ·
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We want to hear what you think
How Other Companies Can Help
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An old-fashioned idea: give consumers something they want ·
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Opportunities to help us, yourself, and consumers ·
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How ISPs can help ·
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Will list generation become a cottage industry? ·
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Opportunities for service organizations worldwide ·
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Opportunities for translation companies
About JUNKBUSTERS
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Company profile ·
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About Junkbusters ·
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About Junkbuster's founder ·
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Colophon ·
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Junkbusters privacy policy ·
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Our patron saint is Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Feedback to JUNKBUSTERS
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We want to hear what you think ·
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The best way to contact us is through our feedback form ·
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If you can only use email ·
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Phone, fax and physical mail ·
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More about our handy feedback form ·
Verify the authenticity of unsolicited communications from us ·
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We don't plan to bug you
What's News at JUNKBUSTERS
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News and Opinion on Marketing and Privacy ·
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Junkbusters and Guidescope combine ·
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FTC attacks spyware ·
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Telemarketers lose appeal in Supreme Court ·
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Junk fax bill passes House ·
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Spammer charged with stealing personal data from Acxiom ·
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FTC charges company with privacy policy switch ·
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English-speaking governments cooperate against spam ·
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FTC recommends against National Do Not Email Registry ·
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Who knows if you read their email? ·
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Google's Gmail criticized by privacy advocates ·
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Survey finds Federal spam law unhelpful ·
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Law proposed to protect children from list vendors ·
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California Access law passed ·
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U.S. Congress says: You CAN SPAM ·
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Airline data used to profile passengers ·
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MIT shuts down RFID Center ·
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The fight for financial privacy ·
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Microsoft gives up pushing Passport ·
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Congress pulls plug on totalitarian database ·
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Junkbusters asks FTC to investigate eBay (again) ·
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Verizon sues to use customer information without consent ·
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Privacy groups accuse Amazon of violating children's privacy ·
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House holds hearings on anti-privacy law ·
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California outlaws cellphone text message spam ·
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Email lists stolen ·
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DoubleClick settles with AGs ·
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Suit against drug site tracker dismissed ·
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Class action suit against junk faxer ·
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Eckerd Drug changes junk consent ·
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Alternative to Microsoft Passport specified ·
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Microsoft licence terms accused of violating banking laws ·
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EU may investigate Microsoft Passport ·
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North Dakotans vote in favor of banking privacy ·
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Experian involved in another wrongful disclosure of consumer files ·
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Big Brother Awards go to Oracle's Ellison and other invaders of privacy ·
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Yahoo weakens privacy policy ·
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J.C. Penney begins sharing its customers' data ·
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FTC investigates Eli Lilly over privacy breach ·
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New FTC chairman announces position on privacy ·
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September 11: Freedom and Fear ·
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Junkbusters President testifies before House and Senate Committees ·
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Company launches CD tracking service ·
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Privacy groups urge FTC reform following Amazon/Alexa inaction ·
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Junkbusters criticizes banner ad companies' offer of multi-tracker opt-out ·
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Proposed law to protect the privacy of schoolkids ·
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Data vendors lose appeal against privacy law ·
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Children's online privacy ·
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Bush makes health privacy rules take effect ·
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Dick Armey reaffirms his opposition to privacy rights ·
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Metromail settles class action suit ·
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Junkbusters calls on lawmakers to investigate profiling companies ·
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Privacy research laboratory criticizes TiVo ·
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Junkbusters slams profilers' refusal to show profiles ·
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Banner ads get bigger, creep onto government sites ·
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Domain name registrar criticized over sale of personal information ·
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Privacy Coalition presents Privacy Pledge to Congress ·
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Microsoft flaw enables email wiretapping ·
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Personalization Consortium proposes privacy principles ·
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Nortel Networks admits Web surveillance and targeting product can damage privacy ·
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Sequencing snafus spill data from IRS, AmEx ·
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FTC drops investigation of DoubleClick ·
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Bankruptcy judge approves subsidized destruction of Toysmart customer database ·
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Year 2000 in Review ·
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Legal action over and Toysrus.com and Coremetrics ·
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Bulk emailer sues anti-spam group ·
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Privacy-threatening CueCat fails to captivate ·
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The fight against junk lessons in schools ·
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DoubleClick will not buy Netcreations ·
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Civil liberties group honors Junkbusters for defense of privacy ·
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New services for privacy and security in credit card transactions ·
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Privacy advocates call for investigation of Cookiegate ·
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Microsoft to test Web bug alerting feature ·
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Privacy advocates criticize P3P as a bogus privacy technology ·
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Another industry group on privacy formed ·
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Presidential candidates talk privacy ·
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HP, Dell, Intel's Grove call for privacy legislation ·
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Online companies propose rules for consumers ·
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FTC recommends privacy legislation, finally ·
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Report by FTC Committee on Online Access and Security ·
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Ad targeting is sloppy and ineffective, say reports ·
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Clinton proposes legislation for financial privacy protection ·
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Employees' PCs searched ·
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Credit bureau Equifax buys huge psychographics database ·
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Time Warner/AOL/Netscape and privacy ·
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The year 1999 in review ·
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Email cookie leak still open ·
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Comet Cursor makes some changes on monitoring function ·
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Privacy advocates tell ecommerce sites to protect privacy ·
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RealNetworks amends data collection practices ·
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Wired Magazine pushes Web odor machine ·
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Addresses in proposed Internet Protocol standards raise privacy concern ·
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Novell, others launching personal data services: privacy-enhancing or privacy-extracting? ·
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Sony's Morita, consumer electronics innovator, dead at 78 ·
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Company proposes banner ad on Golden Gate Bridge ·
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ID chip implant site owns up to hoax ·
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US Govt relaxes restrictions on encryption ·
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Bill payment and Web browsing data to be merged in profiles ·
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Law proposed to protect drivers' privacy ·
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Junkbusters asks Bush campaign to pull donor list off Internet ·
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Company data exchange proposal criticized; source says criticism based on falsehoods ·
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Major security flaws in Microsoft, Compaq, HP systems ·
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Recording companies recording your behavior? ·
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Companies promote privacy policies as an easy alternative to privacy protection ·
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Privacy problems in IE-5 ·
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Anti-junk mail law threated by repeal ·
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Startup to give away PCs, with a catch ·
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Intel drops Processor Serial Number from new chip ·
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Startup awarded patent on ad targeting ·
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MySoftware to sell database marketing lists over the Web ·
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Virginia law would put spammers in the slammer ·
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Playboy to sell customer data ·
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New Internet marketing group renounces spam ·
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Shoppers cards used against shoppers? ·
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Netscape features pose privacy threat ·
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EU Data Protection Directive ·
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Pandora's cookie jar closed (for now) ·
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Microsoft's inglorious record on privacy ·
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Californian anti-spam bill progresses ·
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Web surfing profiles to be sold ·
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Geocities settles privacy suit with FTC ·
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Startup for anti-spam outsourcing ·
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Airline reservation systems selling info on passengers' movements? ·
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Proposed Federal law would outlaw cookie management software ·
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Killer found victim from insider at phone company? ·
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W3C says P3P doesn't infringe patent ·
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P3P draft released ·
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Game software in another privacy fracas ·
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The battle of the bots ·
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Newspapers recriticize junk mail ·
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GUS beats ABII to acquire Metromail ·
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``Relationship Marketing?'' We have to talk... ·
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You want your TV to track you, don't you? ·
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``Debit Bureau'' to watch your funds ·
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TRUSTe launches banner ad privacy guidelines ·
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HTML Mail can leave a damaging trail ·
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Banner ads pose as error messages to get clicks ·
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Ad boss unconcerned about banner-blockers ·
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Martha confronts the adlash ·
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Netscape to publish browser code ·
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MS-IE discloses user names ·
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Make spammers pay - through the phone? ·
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Pop-up ads starting like popcorn ·
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Tracking valuable for Excite ·
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PGP - Pretty Good State Security? ·
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Canadian Marketing Association prohibits spamming ·
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LPWA replaced by Proxymate ·
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Where do they want you to go today? ·
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Yet more browser security bugs found ·
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Blocking software alleged to be invading users' privacy ·
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DoubleClick bets it can find the live ones ·
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The fast march of progress? ·
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Lexis-Nexis to allow individuals access to their data ·
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Eye candy? Visual fat? Graphic junk? No thanks, say Netizens ·
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Economist, Clinton refer to privacy and marketing ·
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Credit card data: the Three Mile Island of the Internet ·
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OPS: Bridge Across the Trust Gap or Privacy Protection Racket? ·
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Web sites selling marketing lists and databases ·
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Who's grabbing your signature and fingerprints? ·
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Advertisers taking the cookie jar from agencies ·
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Privacy fever over SSNs ·
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Many Direct Marketers ignorant, reports trade newspaper ·
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Web ad company opposes proposed cookie standard ·
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When push comes to shove ·
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Soliciting the Supreme Being ·
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We have seen the future, and it's full of junk ·
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Consumer group calls on marketers to limit credit solicitations ·
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Junkbusters Declare drafts opt-out letters ·
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ACLU challenges Georgia law against on-line anonymity ·
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Bill proposed to restrict transfer of personal information ·
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Make direct marketers pay you to use information about you ·
Other News from Junkbusters ·
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News (Press) Releases for Reporters ·
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Development status ·
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No browser clutter
Media Coverage of JUNKBUSTERS
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Coverage in the Media and on the Web ·
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Most recent mentions in the media ·
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Awards, Picks and Celebrity Recommendations ·
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Newspapers ·
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Computing and technology magazines ·
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General interest magazines ·
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Trade Publications ·
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Web Media Conglomerates ·
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Television ·
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Radio ·
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Links to us on the Web ·
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Search engines that index us
Legal
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Information on legal topics ·
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See also other pages ·
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Trademarks ·
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How to display a GIF graphic image of our trade name logo ·
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Copyright and Copyleft ·
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Translations ·
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Void where prohibited by local law ·
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Reminder of certain other disclaimers
The GNU General Public License
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We did not write the GPL: the Free Software Foundation did ·
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The GPL allows copying and changing of copyrighted documents ·
Version 2, June 1991 ·
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Preamble ·
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GNU General Public License: Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution and Modification ·
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Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
Domains are .com, not .org
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This is not the correct home page for Junkbusters.com ·
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We are a for-profit .com, not a non-profit .org
Reference Information
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Language and Country Codes ·
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Language Codes from ISO 639 ·
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Two-letter Country Codes from ISO 3166
About JUNKBUSTERS SPAMOFF
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If you don't want junk email, here's a way to say so strongly ·
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You can warn off spammers in a reply ·
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Disclaimer and summary of the options described below ·
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Tracking down the spammer ·
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Option 1: Replying to each spam with a ``Notification and Offer'' ·
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Option 2: Publishing your ``Spam Offer'' on the Web ·
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Option 3: Replying by certified mail ·
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Option 4: Keeping copies of the spam you get, to claim payment ·
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We need better law against spammers
Why Junk Email Must be Stopped
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All cannot talk to all ·
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FTC sues spammer for alleged scam ·
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Junkbusters at Internet World with Legislators ·
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Sanford Wallace back to junk faxes? ·
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Spam King Abdicates? ·
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Anti-spam bill has senate hearings ·
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Hotmail wins default judgments against spammers ·
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Web-based email from Hotmail sometimes leak email address ·
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FTC receives report on junk email ·
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AT&T spams webmasters ·
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Spammers threaten to publish AOL email addresses ·
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Junkbusters President debates ``Spam King'' Sanford Wallace ·
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Cyber Promotions re-disconnected from AGIS ·
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Sun chief urges mailbombing Microsoft? ·
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Extremely Hopeful Idea? ·
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Barnes & Noble targets spam based on people's home pages ·
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Entertainment - consent = harassment + fraud? ·
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Beware spam bearing unsolicited software attachments ·
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More spam news ·
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Legal eagles hovering over spammers ·
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Federal legislation proposed to restrict spam ·
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Email opt-out lists: easy to start, hard to enforce ·
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In other spam-related news ·
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DMA says spam ``poses little or no risk to consumers'' ·
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Cyber Promotions Web site attacked by hackers ·
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You're invited to a spam party in cyberspace ·
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Spammers hijacking ISPs ·
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Bill proposed to outlaw spam in Nevada ·
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Junk email in the courts ·
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The ``R9ch'' and ``tiptoe001'' child porn spam ·
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Name-scavenging robots ·
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``an additional medium for Psychological Operations campaigns'' ·
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Spammer is phone-bombed ·
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Survey finds users want spamming stopped without legislation ·
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Spam is often fraud ·
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So what should be done about spammers?
How ISPs and Organizations Can Fight Spam
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Protecting privacy is an essential service ·
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See also... ·
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Spam is bad for business ·
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Options for organizations to consider ·
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A sample ``Notification and Offer'' adapted for organizational use ·
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What about the right of the individual to receive spam? ·
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Employers have been trashing junk for years ·
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ISPs must consider how to best serve their customers ·
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Our goal: make the Internet a junk-free zone
Internet JUNKBUSTER Frequently Asked Questions
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The Top Ten Questions ·
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What is the Internet Junkbuster Proxy and what does it do for me? ·
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Is there a license fee / warranty / registration form / expiration? ·
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Does it run on Windows? On a Mac? On the AOL browser? ·
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How can I get my ISP to run the Internet Junkbuster? ·
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Who chooses the options that control what is blocked? ·
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How do I download and run the program on my computer? ·
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How can I tell which blockfile and options are being used? ·
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My browser started giving me ``server not responding'' messages ·
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I've got this great idea for a new feature. Who do I tell? ·
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My question isn't listed here. Who do I ask for support? ·
Configuring your browser to talk to the Internet Junkbuster ·
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What is the proxy address of the Internet Junkbuster? ·
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How do I tell the browser where to find the Internet Junkbuster? ·
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What should I do if I find another proxy is already configured? ·
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What if I want to stop using the Internet Junkbuster? ·
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Automatic dialing isn't working any more. How do I fix it? ·
Setting up the Internet Junkbuster on your local computer ·
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How do I compile the code under Unix? ·
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How do I compile the code under Windows? ·
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How do I check that the proxy is working? ·
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How and why would I have this proxy chained with other proxies? ·
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How does the Internet Junkbuster work with SOCKS gateways? ·
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How do I configure it to be just a plain old proxy? ·
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How do I shut down the proxy (to restart it)? ·
Information for companies ·
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What do advertising companies think of this kind of technology? ·
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Should we provide the Internet Junkbuster for our employees? ·
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Can our company get commercial support for the software? ·
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I run an ISP. What issues should I consider before offering it? ·
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What's a Proxy Server Server and how can I make money as one? ·
Blocking ·
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Where can I get an example blockfile that stops most ads? ·
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If I see an ad I wish I hadn't, how do I stop it? ·
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How come this ad is still getting through anyway? ·
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How do I stop it blocking a URL that I actually want? ·
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Can I block sites I don't want my children to see? ·
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What do I see when a page or graphic is blocked by the proxy? ·
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Why not replace blocked banners with something invisible? ·
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Why not block banners based on the dimensions of the image? ·
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What about non-graphic advertising within the pages I want? ·
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Does it block ads on the broadcasting ``push'' systems? ·
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Does it block popup ads? ·
Cookies ·
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Might some cookies still get through? How can I stop them? ·
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Exactly how do cookies get created and stored anyway? ·
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If cookies can't get through, will some things stop working for me? ·
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Can I control cookies on a per-site basis? ·
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Can I make up my own fake cookies (wafers) to feed to servers? ·
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Why would anyone want to save their cookies in a ``cookie jar?'' ·
Anonymity ·
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If I use the Internet Junkbuster, will my anonymity be guaranteed? ·
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Why should I trust my ISP or Junkbusters with my browsing data? ·
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Can the proxy be used for logging who looks at what? ·
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What private information from server-bound headers is removed? ·
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Might some things break because header information is changed? ·
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How is misidentifying my browser good for security and privacy? ·
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Does the Internet Junkbuster conceal my IP address? ·
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Does the Internet Junkbuster thwart identification by identd? ·
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Can web sites tell that I'm using the Internet Junkbuster? ·
Security ·
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What happens with Secure Documents (SSL, https:)? ·
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Will using this as my Security Proxy compromise security? ·
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Can I restrict use of the proxy to a set of nominated IP addresses? ·
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Are there any security risks for ISPs or others who offer the proxy?
Internet JUNKBUSTER Technical Information
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Manual Page ·
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Name ·
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Synopsis ·
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Description ·
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Installation and Use ·
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Checking Options ·
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See Also ·
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Copyright and GPL
Internet JUNKBUSTER Distribution Information
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Availability by platform ·
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Source code and Windows binary currently available ·
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Windows ·
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Notes for users of the current version on Windows ·
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Unix ·
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RedHat Linux ·
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Debian ·
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Free BSD ·
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OS/2 ·
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Macintosh ·
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BeOS ·
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AOL, WebTV, and other online service providers ·
Related software ·
Version History ·
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Current release ·
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Previous changes
The Internet JUNKBUSTER Proxy on Windows
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Installation procedures under Window 95/98/XP/ME/NT/2000 ·
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Installation procedure for Version 2.0.1 for Window 95/98/NT/XP/ME/2000 ·
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Uninstalling the proxy ·
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Installing the proxy as a service under Windows NT / 2000
Ordering books referenced by JUNKBUSTERS
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Some of our favorite quotes ·
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Some of our favorite business books
Search JUNKBUSTERS
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Searching on or about junkbusters.com ·
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On-site search facility ·
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Other Search Engines ·
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Search engines on other media sites
Submissions to the FTC
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Comments to the Federal Trade Commission ·
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Background about Junkbusters ·
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Acknowledgments ·
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Workshop One: Data Base Study -- Comment, P974806 ·
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Two: Online; Consumer Privacy 1997 -- Comment, P954807 ·
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Additional Comments submitted after the Workshop
on Spam at the FTC
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2003 Workshop ·
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April 2003 Letter on junk email from consumer groups ·
1997: Unsolicited Commercial E-mail: Overview
Guide to Staying Off Junk Email Lists
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ·
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Reduce your exposure to ``harvesting'' ·
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Check your browsing isn't giving you away ·
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Requesting anonymity from sources of addresses ·
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Reporting spammers to ISPs and email providers ·
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Reporting spammers to law enforcement ·
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What about removal services? ·
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Spam, spam, spam, spam
Guidelines for Email List Policy
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DRAFT ONLY FOR DISCUSSION ·
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Background ·
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Acknowledgments ·
Preamble for traditional marketers ·
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Guest contribution by Rosalind Resnick ·
The guidelines ·
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Do not send unsolicited bulk email ·
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Be sure the addressees have asked for the email ·
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State prominently your policy of keeping addresses confidential ·
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Make the first message an acknowledgment ·
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Keep adequate records of each registration ·
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State the origin of the message up front ·
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Always include clear instructions on how to unsubscribe ·
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Keep a human available to deal with problems ·
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Maintain adequate security of your lists ·
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To be continued
Submissions to the Department of Commerce
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Presentations by Jason Catlett at the DoC ·
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Email privacy (Tuesday morning) ·
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Filtering banner ads (Wednesday afternoon) ·
Junkbusters response to DoC's request for public comment ·
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Comments on Elements of Effective Self Regulation
Presentations at Internet World
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Talks at the world's largest Internet conference ·
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Upcoming events ·
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Past events ·
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Outline of panel: Privacy Policies, Strategies and Processes for eCommerce sites ·
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Outline of panel: Internet Privacy Laws: Where do we stand? (1999) ·
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Outline of panel: The Privacy Trade Wars of 1999? ·
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Outline of talk: The Privacy Arms Race ·
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Remarks by Jason Catlett at Spam Debate at IW Spring '98 ·
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The Privacy Arms Race ·
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Slides used only at the Chicago Summer '98 Show ·
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Slides used only at the Berlin Show ·
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Slides used only at the Los Angeles Spring '98 Show
Fair Information Practices
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The OECD's eight principles of FIP ·
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Excerpt from the OECD's Guidelines (1980) ·
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Collection Limitation Principle ·
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Data Quality Principle ·
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Purpose Specification Principle ·
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Use Limitation Principle ·
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Security Safeguards Principle ·
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Openness Principle ·
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Individual Participation Principle ·
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Accountability Principle ·
Address at Privacy and American Business Conference '98 ·
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Privacy at the end of the millennium
The Intel Processor Serial Number Letters
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Letter sent to managers of socially responsible mutual funds 1999/2/28 ·
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Letter sent to FTC 2/26 ·
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Letter sent February 25 to CEOs of OEMs ·
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Letter sent to FTC 2/22 (before Heise bug was noted) ·
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Letters sent to CEOs of PC Manufacturers 2/22 ·
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Letter sent to consumer and privacy organizations 2/15 ·
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Dates and details of the letters
Report: ``Bill? Bill Who?''
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A study of the privacy and competitiveness implications of an annuity model for licensing Microsoft Windows 2000 ·
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Summary: coerced mass registration threatens privacy and competitiveness ·
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Background on Kempin's proposal for limited-time licensing ·
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How an annuity model might appear to the consumer ·
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Fee payment generally requires identification ·
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Microsoft's broad surveillance of consumer behavior will extend further ·
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Coercing consumers to register would reduce competitiveness ·
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Information obtained from registrations will be used for marketing ·
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Microsoft has a poor record on consumer privacy ·
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Microsoft has the motive and opportunity to amass surveillance data ·
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What can be done, and by whom? ·
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Summary: coerced mass registration threatens privacy and competitiveness ·
Related links
Microsoft and Privacy
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Campaign on Passport and Windows XP ·
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Open letter to Microsoft March 27, 2001 ·
Hotmail Security and Privacy ·
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Hotmail History ·
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Open Letter to Microsoft 1999/9/14 ·
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Reply from Herbold, 9/15 at 10:18 PST ·
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Follow-up from Junkbusters to Herbold 9/15 ·
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Investigation by CNET and subsequent statement ·
Microsoft and the GUID ·
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History and background ·
Privacy Advisory on Microsoft Hardware IDs ·
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Problem ·
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Platforms ·
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Risk Assessment ·
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Recommendations for consumers ·
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The implications of Ethernet addresses in cookies ·
Reference and source material ·
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Sources ·
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More reference material ·
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1999/3/12 Letter to TRUSTe ·
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Letter to FTC March 22, 1999 ·
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Letter to Microsoft 2/22 ·
Junkbusters' demands to Microsoft
At the Computers, Privacy and Freedom Conference
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Who goes there? Privacy in identity and location services ·
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A panel at CFP 2002 ·
Infomediaries and negotiated privacy techniques ·
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A panel at CFP 2000 ·
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Participants ·
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Description ·
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Media coverage and followup ·
Privacy and Profiling: a panel at CFP '99 ·
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Participants ·
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Definition of the terms ``Privacy'' and ``Profiling'' ·
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What profiles exist? What are the risks to privacy and the remedies? ·
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What is the role of persistent identifiers in these profiles? ·
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What of anonymity and pseudonymity? ·
Other material
Self-regulation and privacy
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Six silly excuses for postponing privacy rights ·
Seal programs ·
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The Better Business Bureau's BBBOnline Privacy seal ·
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Open letter 4/21 to BBB Online about Equifax ·
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Email reply 4/21 from BBB Online ·
Assessments of the effectiveness of self-regulation ·
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Forrester slams self-regulation
DoubleClick, Abacus Direct and Privacy
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Background ·
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Open Letter to Kevin Ryan, June 1, 2001 ·
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Open letter to Doubleclick, March 27, 2001 ·
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Open Letter sent to managers of socially responsible mutual funds 1999/11/19 ·
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Open Letter 6/29 to Stockholders of Abacus Direct ·
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Open Letter 6/21 asking the companies to abandon their merger ·
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Technical standards and privacy
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P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) ·
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Open Letter 9/13 to P3P Developers ·
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Statements from Microsoft and Netscape ·
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More on P3P ·
RosettaNet ·
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Background and postscript on RosettaNet ·
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Open Letter 9/10 to RosettaNet ·
Other standards ·
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ECML (Electronic Commerce Modeling Language)
Profiling
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Letter 3/28 to Congressional Privacy Caucus ·
The March 2001 FTC workshop on Consumer Profiling ·
Dialog with company leaders on profiling ·
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Junkbusters reply March 12 to PLI, DMA and Acxiom ·
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Main body of the letter to company leaders on their disposition toward profiling ·
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Response sheet ·
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Addressees ·
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Clarification published March 2, 2001 ·
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Response by Esther Dyson ·
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Response by Privacy Leadership Initiative, March 7, 2001 ·
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Response by the Direct Marketing Association, March 7, 2001 ·
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Response by Acxiom Corp., March 8, 2001 ·
1999 Comments to the Dept. of Commerce and Federal Trade Commission ·
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1999 Comment, P994809 ·
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Cover Letter ·
Rebuttal comments from the workshop ·
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Critique of the 1999 Westin/Doubleclick survey ·
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A sample question from the Westin/Doubleclick survey
Awards for Privacy in Commerce
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What, where, who and why? ·
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Scope and purpose of the awards ·
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Awards ceremony ·
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Panel of Judges ·
The finalists and categories ·
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Public officials ·
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For-profit corporations ·
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Technologies and technologists ·
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Public discourse
RealNetworks' Privacy Intrusion
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Background ·
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Open Letter 1999/11/1 to RealNetworks ·
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Assessment of RealNetwork's remediation ·
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Junkbusters Advisory to Consumers ·
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RealNetworks Additions on the GUID 10/30
Ecommerce topics
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Slides from talks on electronic commerce ·
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UNSW lecture on Privacy and Technology ·
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Secure iWorld Online Privacy Conference ·
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Privacy Officers Association Tutorial 2002 ·
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Mobile Location Services 2001 ·
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Slides from Catlett's talk at Marketing on the Internet 2001 ·
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Slides from Catlett's talk at the ``Personalization Summit'' San Francisco 2000 ·
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Slides from Catlett's talk at the Internet Commerce Expo, Dusseldorf ·
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Slides from Catlett's talk at WebAttack Conference ·
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Slides from Catlett's talk at the ``Personalization Summit'' San Francisco 1999
Take action to save privacy
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How you can join the fight for privacy rights ·
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Tell Washington you want your privacy
The Comet Cursor
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Background ·
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Related links ·
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Open Letter 1999/11/29 to Eliot Spitzer, NY Attorney General
For Reporters
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Other sources
Speeches in Public Forums
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Prepared remarks and slides from past speeches ·
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Spam Summit 2000 ·
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Tech forum
Privacy and the States
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Before the National Governors Association on July 10, 2000 ·
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The states have been leaders on privacy and must continue ·
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Technological change often necessitates new privacy protections ·
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The states must remain free to experiment with privacy protection measures ·
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The DoC's Safe Harbor plan protects companies and European citizens, not Americans
Testimony Before Congress
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Before the Senate Commerce Committee on July 11, 2001 ·
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Written statement ·
Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on July 12, 2001 ·
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Written testimony ·
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Oral testimony ·
Before the Communications Subcommittee on April 26, 2001 ·
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Written testimony 2001/4 ·
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Letter 2001/4/26 on junk email from Consumer Groups ·
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Oral Testimony ·
Before the Senate Commerce Committee on May 25, 2000 ·
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Written Testimony ·
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The Report and Recommendation of the Federal Trade Commission ·
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The Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2000 ·
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Oral Testimony
The Internet Junkbuster Proxy or Guidescope's?
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Which ad blocking software is right for you? ·
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Why block ads? ·
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What is Guidescope? ·
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How does Guidescope's software compare with the Internet Junkbuster? ·
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Which product should I consider using? ·
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Other Frequently Asked Questions
Amazon.com and Privacy
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Amazon's change of privacy policy ·
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Background and recent news ·
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Letter 2002/10/8 to State Attorneys General ·
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Reply from Massachussetts AG's office ·
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Letter 2001/5/30 to Muris ·
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Announcement 2001/1/30 of protest trinkets ·
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Letter 2000/12/6 from Davies to UK Commissioner ·
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Letter 2000/12/5 from Davies to Amazon ·
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Open letter 2000/12/4 from Junkbusters To Jeff Bezos ·
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Letter 2000/12/4 to Federal Trade Commission ·
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Letter 12/4 from Privacy International to UK Data Protection Commissioner ·
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Letter 11/27 from Amazon to Junkbusters ·
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Open Letter 9/13 to Amazon ·
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Letter 9/14 from Simon Davies to Amazon.co.uk ·
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Sample email for customers to send to Amazon ·
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Rebuttal of Amazon's canned response to concerned customers ·
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Amazon's canned response to concerned customers ·
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Independent analysts comment on Amazon's move
Distributed Denial of Service Attack
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We apologize for reduced availability
Wireless Technologies and Privacy
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Report: Privacy and Wireless Technologies (DRAFT ONLY) ·
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Summary ·
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Wireless technologies: their potential for good and harm ·
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Current legislative status
Sample Opt-Out Letters
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Just say no to junk and privacy violations
RFID and Privacy
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Radio Frequency ID Devices ·
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Technical and business background ·
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Where privacy is threatened ·
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Benetton
Image Gallery
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Anti-RFID Ads ·
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The Red-Blue-Yellow series
Slam Spam Campaign Images
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Sample and related images ·
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Original poster
eBay and Privacy
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eBay's Privacy Policy changes in April 2003 ·
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Letter April 22, 2003 to FTC ·
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Copy of eBay's short summary of its privacy policy ·
eBay's Privacy Policy changes in 2002 ·
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eBay's change and partial backdown in February 2002 ·
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Letter February 2002 to FTC
Junk Fax Headlines
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What you can do about junk sent to your fax machine
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