This is interesting. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of this happening.
(02-09) 14:22 PST WASHINGTON (AP) —
TRUSTe, the business community’s guarantor of Internet privacy, abruptly ended on Wednesday its relationship with the company operating FreeiPods.com and other Web sites, alleging unspecified violations of privacy promises to consumers.
TRUSTe said Gratis Internet LLC of Washington no longer could display on any of its Internet properties the industry’s broadly recognized seal intended to assure consumers that a Web site complies with privacy-protection guidelines.
It was the first such revocation in at least two years under the industry’s own regulatory program. “It is rare,” said Carolyn Hodge, a spokeswoman for San Francisco-based TRUSTe. “It is really a last resort for us.”
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