WASHINGTON (August 10, 2001) – The National Consumer Coalition’s Privacy Group today launched nccprivacy , a website dealing with all facets of consumer privacy issues. NCCPrivacy.org brings together privacy news, studies on privacy and tools to help consumers protect their privacy. It even fingers privacy heroes and villains.

The front page has links to breaking news – articles, releases and statements – about the latest developments in the policy, politics, technology and reality of consumer privacy. Larger studies and other source documents on privacy policy are divided into four issue areas – online privacy, medical privacy, financial privacy, and government surveillance.

Links and commentary on tools consumers can use to control the flow of their personal information are featured in the "Privacy Tools" section. And for reporters and researchers looking for more information, a list of privacy experts inside and outside the NCC, with contact information, complements the news and in-depth studies.

The National Consumer Coalition, founded by Consumer Alert, consists of nonprofit membership organizations with a combined membership of over 2 million people. NCC believes that a market economy benefits consumers by expanding consumer choice and competition and fostering innovation, which lowers costs and improves consumer welfare. NCC recognizes that individual consumers have different values and varying needs in the marketplace and that informed consumers are better off making their own decisions in the marketplace and holding responsibility for those decisions. NCC works to expose government policies that restrict consumer choice and stifle competition -- harming consumers by substituting policymakers’ values for individual values and raising the costs of goods and services to consumers.

This is the perspective the NCC brings to information technology and privacy issues, along with the message that the greatest real threat to privacy is government abuse. These and other guiding principals of the Privacy Group are spelled out on nccprivacy.

Consumer Alert is a non-profit consumer group based in Washington, DC.

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