E-business vs. 'none of your business'
Privacy from Companies
6/20/2000; 8:07:27 AM "Should it be illegal to carry a pocket organizer across an international border, because it contains names and numbers of people who didn't give their permission? Or should companies and governments be allowed to collect all manner of information on people without their knowledge or consent, to be sold, swapped and used in any way whatsoever?"

This article is a fairly good summary of the disparity between European and American "privacy" (inasmuch as the word applies to America) practices.