Revenues are often the primary motivators for state agencies that license or sell access to their databases.

Web access to these data aggregators only broadens a growing problem inherent in these data services: consumers do not have access to the public information maintained about them and disseminated by the look-up services. Accordingly, consumers will not be able to check for inaccuracies resulting from transcription or other errors occurring in the process of obtaining or compiling the public information by the look-up services.

In addition to not being able to access the information maintained about them in these massive data warehouses,

For instance, Outpost.com, a Web site offering palm pilots and other hi-tech gear, promised to fix a glitch that potentially revealed customers' detailed transaction summaries, including e-mail, billing and shipping addresses, type of credit card they used, and their order history.

Defrauding pay-to-surf companies has become the latest scam in cyberspace. In the world of electronic commerce such a scenario is the cyber equivalent of discovering the local drug dealer has commandeered your store's pay phone, or learning that your accountant is laundering funds through your business.

Software programs circulating on the Internet are secretly using anonymous web browsers and other anonymizing services to defraud companies that pay Web users to surf the Internet.

Concerns about privacy are notably higher among some groups, especially Internet novices (those who first got online within the past six months), parents, older Americans, and women. In some instances, these fears are associated with lower participation in some online activities, especially commercial and social activities. There is no way to know yet whether these groups will eventually become more comfortable and less fearful in the online world or whether their wariness will permanently limit their use of the Internet until their concerns about protecting personal information are met.

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