t the results to giant direct-marketing databases, is and issue that almost every Internet user is concerned. Many legal battles will go on for the next few years to safeguard consumer sensitive information. Internet is becoming the most efficient tool to gather detailed personal information. This summer the new Financial Services Modernization Act will allow insurance, security, and banking companies to affiliate and share consumer information such as payments for medical services and entertainment, political, religious and banking and credit card records. Many organizations are arguing about this type of laws that are allowing sharing personal information among them. This is an invasion of privacy for some but right now there are no laws that can protect us from that. The only way to protect us is with programs that will safeguard consumer information. For the next years new improved programs will come up in order to protect the consumer privacy when using the Internet. This is like fighting fire with fire. In some way we need to learn to protect us and deal with it, and educate ourselves about the threats we might find when using the Internet, and the information that web pages gather from us.Protecting children of being exposed to explicit material is a concern of every parent. Today there are programs that filter adult sites such as Net Nanny and Cyber Patrol. These applications are vulnerable because they can't filter all pornographic sites. The way these applications work is by filtering all those sites that contain words like sex included in their websites. Sometimes adult “urls” have trick names that cannot be filtered by programs. I think this can be solved if all pornographic sites have a pattern in their web site address. Just like they exist .edu for education and .com for commercial, I think a good idea is to have another extension for adult sites, for example .xxx. With this format I think government can regul...
