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TRUSTe
(TRUSTe, San Francisco, CA, www.truste.org) A non-profit organization founded in 1997 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the CommerceNet Consortium. Its mission is to promote privacy on the Internet. The TRUSTe seal, known as a "trustmark," signifies that the Web site will publicly state how all information obtained from you will be disclosed to others, and if there are options you can select. See also trustee.

The Trustmark
When you see this logo, you will be able to find out what the Web site is doing with any information you send to it.


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Other important factors to look for are the TRUSTe and Thawte logos.
com to ensure that its seal is not being simply cut and pasted on to web sites without going through the Truste privacy authentication process.
Their lobby groups, TrustE and the Online Privacy Alliance (OPA), also spoke their piece at the hearing.
 
 
 
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