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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2817)	3/2/2000 10:35:00 AM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2902

People have no idea about how much of their personal information has already been Disseminated...they probably don't want to know. Merrill should cut and run from this issue...[DCLK] It's just the Tip of the iceberg.

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2817)	3/2/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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." [...]