One potential hazard is growing concern about online abuses of consumer privacy.

Under the settlement, Facebook would subject itself to an independent audit on consumer privacy for the next 20 years.

Issues of consumer privacy were raised and the plan was shelved.

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And we want something done about it: 71 percent of those surveyed said that new laws were needed to protect consumer privacy on the Web.

But, she added, "we continue to support interoperability so long as consumer privacy, security and network performance are protected."

Increasingly, the group became concerned about the ways that cookies might be used to violate consumer privacy.

The Commission must address these attacks on consumer privacy.

Real Media, for example, is building a business model on technologies that attempt to protect consumer privacy.

The commission, she said, has guidelines to evaluate the effects of all new services on consumer privacy.