Report on the Privacy Policies and Practices of Health Web Sites

Citation
Janlori Goldman, Zoe Hudson & Richard M. Smith, Report on the Privacy Policies and Practices of Health Web Sites (Jan. 2000) (full-text).

Overview
This report presents a profile of the policies and practices of 21 health- related Web sites. The sites were selected to represent a mix of the most trafficked consumer health sites in the following categories: sites where consumer desire for anonymity might be more precious, sites where pharmaceuticals and health products may be researched and purchased, general search engines or portals that get a high degree of Internet traffic, and sites that target a specific demographic.