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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2817)3/2/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce  Read Replies (2) of 2902
 
USA Today: DoubleClick backs off Web-tracking plan

Looks like the fire got a bit too hot for them. What comes next?

usatoday.com

[...]

Internet advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. has dropped its plans to track
Internet users by name as they move across any one of more than 11,500
Web sites on which the company places advertisements.


[...]

'It is clear from these discussions that I made a mistake by planning to
merge names with anonymous user activity across Web sites in the
absence of government and industry privacy standards."

[...]
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