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Technology Stocks : USW US West: New Things Happening Over the Airwaves -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: long-gone who wrote (159)	11/2/2000 12:01:20 PM
From: The Street	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 161

THEY'RE WATCHING! ewatch.com "Online sleuth eWATCH, a service of PR. Newswire, boasts that for a fee of $5,000, it can find the actual identity behind a screen name. Who's willing to pay? So far, claims eWatch, more than 800 corporate clients. One satisfied customer is U.S. West. Kristina Jonell, the company's Internet manager, provided eWatch with a glowing testimonial: "We decided to try eWatch because...we didn't have a way to know what customers were saying and in which discussion groups they were talking about US West. So this is a great way for us to do that tracking and to allow us to participate in those discussions." This kind of tracking is especially worrisome when you consider that many bulletin boards don't allow you to erase postings. Except in rare cases, the major newsgroups and bulletin boards preserve every remark-obscene or mundane-on their servers for as long as they are in business, and sometimes beyond.