| Wireless Location Information |
| The proliferation of mobile communications is leading to new services based on the ability of providers to determine, with increasing precision, the geographic location of the accessing device.
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| Children |
| Privacy protection of children is covered by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
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| Financial |
| If you want to gain an understanding of someone, merely ask to see their checkbook. The companies and organizations that they give money to will allow you to paint a very complete picture.
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| Online Profiling |
| DoubleClick is a company that posts banner advertising on web pages. In June 1999 they purchased Abacus, a company that distributes catalogs through the mail. In January 2000 it was revelaed that Doubleclick was going to merge online information with offline information.
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| Intel Processor Serial Number |
| In February 1999, Intel announced that a feature of the Pentium-III processor chip would be a Processor Serial Number. A serial number that can be transmitted, with or without the user's permission or knowledge, electronically over a network connection leaves many privacy and security holes.
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| Personally Identifying Information |
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Services which provide "credit header" information, have been available for quite some time, however most consumers are unaware of their existence. Lexis-Nexis has the distinction of attracting a lot of attention in the summer of 1996 for releasing social security numbers along with other personally identifying information when they made their P-Trak product available on the Internet. Now there are multiple companies in the business of selling your Personally Identifying Information.
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