...collecting personal information from children without parental permission. Microsoft was a founding member of the Online Privacy Alliance, a Washington-based trade group organized last year to lobby against new federal privacy laws.

...use the processor ID feature to validate user identification." Caine helped organize the Washington-based Online Privacy Alliance, an industry group fighting efforts to pass new federal privacy laws for the Internet. IBM also manufactures...

...online industry to find ways to better protect the privacy of adults on the Web, such as recent efforts by the Online Privacy Alliance, a newly formed group of 50 companies and trade groups that include Microsoft, America Online and IBM. Gore...

...fledgling electronic commerce. Gore praised the announcement earlier this week by nearly 50 companies to form the Online Privacy Alliance, a trade group to develop privacy rules for businesses. The group has already urged online companies not to...

...not entice children younger than 13 to disclose personal information with games or contests, according to the Online Privacy Alliance, www.privacyalliance.org, an industry trade group.

...to assure consumers. Under the proposal by the Online Privacy Alliance, these seals -- similar to approval by the Better...with its BBBOnline program. The proposal by the Online Privacy Alliance comes as Commerce Secretary William Daley is expected...

...the federal government that industry can protect consumer privacy without new laws. But, significantly, the Online Privacy Alliance did not announce how it will punish companies on the Internet that violate its new privacy principles, saying...