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There is something fundamentally wrong in the debate on how to control online privacy when Internet users don’t even know what they don’t know.  Case in point.  Earlier this year a survey showed that most Internet users believe that the mere presence of the words "privacy policy" on a website means that site cannot share information about them without their written consent.  Wrong.  What users don’t know is that the words "privacy policy" can encompass a broad range of policy from true commitments to privacy protection at one end to statements reserving the right to use personal information "in any way and for any purpose.” 

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