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• Eolas suit may spark HTML changes

  As anxiety builds throughout the Web over the patent threatening Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the Web's leading standards group is considering modifying the medium's lingua franca itself, HTML, to address the same threat.

• In privacy debate, tech has two faces

  Although modern technology created many of society's most pressing threats to privacy, a group of researchers is out to prove that it is also the greatest defender of civil liberties.

• Promoting Web privacy

  The World Wide Web Consortium's Lorrie Cranor urges Webmasters to adopt better privacy regulations. Her message: Now is the time to start acting more responsibly.

• P3P stalls as backers regroup

  Six months after its recommendation as an Internet standard, a major privacy initiative is entering an awkward adolescence as software heavyweights adopt it and individual Web sites leave it to languish.

• Customers' trust is vital in site marketing efforts

  Customer/visitor identification is just one part of the online business equation,"it's just as important to understand which customers return to your site, and why.

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• The threat of Browser Helper Objects

  A feature in Internet Explorer allows attackers to hijack secure financial transactions from unsuspecting users. Australian banks targeted include ANZ, National, and Westpac. How can you protect yourself?

• Promoting Web privacy

  The World Wide Web Consortium's Lorrie Cranor urges Webmasters to adopt better privacy regulations. Her message: Now is the time to start acting more responsibly.

• Customers' trust is vital in site marketing efforts

  Customer/visitor identification is just one part of the online business equation,"it's just as important to understand which customers return to your site, and why.

• In the trenches of techno-rebellion

  Activist programmers are developing protection against intrusive ads, tracking software, and other mechanisms that piggyback on free software and quietly co-opt consumers' computers.

• Microsoft's balancing act

  Buffeted by criticism of the way it handles privacy and security matters, Microsoft is trying to batten down the hatches on both fronts in simultaneous efforts.

Reviews (2)

• Microsoft tweaks its browser

  Unlike the last update of archrival Netscape's browser package, which represented a major redesign, the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Public Preview makes less than earth-shattering changes. That said, Microsoft did enhance the Search Companion, tweak error reporting and integrate additional online privacy information.

• Investigating Internet Explorer 6.0

  Learn how to get the most out of Internet Explorer 6's new features with this how-to guide.

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