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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill F. who wrote (53623)	3/27/1999 8:37:00 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

MB or Fleck, re: Internet privacy/security/E-commerce. Lou Gerstner and Pat Gelsinger (Intel) recently projected W/W E-commerce would grow to $600 Billion by 2002. (Up from $6 billion in 1998). Both company's view E- commerce as a major force driving their enterprise solutions. At the same time: Recent polls show only 7% of users trust the Internet for transactions. Only 2% of filers trust the net for IRS filings. Visa claims 50% of total account disputes occur in the few transactions that occur on the net. Europe has implemented privacy rules that make international E-commerce very difficult. Privacy groups are extremely concerned about net privacy and have a mounted a number of initiatives with the Government. An attempt by Image Data to create a national data base of Drivers license information has met extreme resistance from the public, states and congressmen, and it appears likely this will fail. Lawmakers don't appear to have a good solution for net security in hand. What are your views on this apparent dichotomy?