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VeriSign Accused of Privacy Violation

Posted by TimSlavin at September 22, 2003

VeriSign Accused of Privacy Violation: "Privacy advocates are warning that recent changes to the .com and .net database of domain names by VeriSign could violate the privacy of millions of Internet users, inadvertently sending confidential e-mail content and Web surfing data to VeriSign's systems." Good background on a hot issue: Verisign's recent launch of a service that reroutes mis-typed URLs (20 million a day according to Verisign) to a Verisign web page. This impacts email, spam filters, and other services. It sounds like a massive case of unintended consequences. From PCWorld.

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