Pseudonymity Now Privacy from Companies5/2/2000; 3:45:05 PM Jan 21, 2000: '"From an economics point of view, your data is becoming a commodity," said Hill, president of Zero-Knowledge Systems. "All of this is leading the charge for people to say 'I don't want to give up my data.'"' Here's one 'right' that won't be won in the courts... people need to more-or-less decide together that when a company abuses their personal information, not to shop with that company or give it any money. That's all it would take, universal cooperation in the consumer's best interest.In other words... don't hold your breath.I don't go in much for this style of idealism either, and I run a website dedicated to the cause :-). It almost seems hypocritical to expect the general public boycott anybody because of info-abuse.I do however boycott Real Networks, not only because of the information they spam the user with, not only because of the recent privacy problems, and not only because streaming video stinks, but also because of the way they try to take over my computer when I install their product. The fastest way for a peice of software to get uninstalled from my computer is to install a task-bar icon that is useless, difficult to remove, unasked for, and consumes memory, just so the useless Real Player can load in .5 seconds instead of 2. My computer, not Real's!