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[FreedomSight] Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline - "Sixty-four percent of American adults do not know that it is legal for online stores to charge different people different prices at the same time of day for the same product. This groundbreaking new study (38 pages, PDF) explores this and many other shopping facts that all Americans need to know in order to protect themselves from online and offline exploitation."

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COMMENTARY BY HRH PRINCE ALI[COMMENTARY BY HRH PRINCE ALI] Online vs. Offline Shopping: "Sixty-four percent of American adults do not know that it is legal for online stores to charge different people different prices at the same time of day for the same product. This Groundbreaking new study explores this and many other shopping facts that all Americans need to know in order to protect themselves from online and offline exploitation."

http://www.sapiensbryan.com [SapiensBryan Blog - The Latest Tech Breaking News Blog.] Are You Savvy About Online Security: For the study, titled “Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline” and released Thursday, June 02, 2005, 1500 adult U.S. Internet users were asked true-or-false questions about topics such as Web site privacy policies and retailers’ pricing schemes.

[Protectionblog.net] EarthLink Protection Blog: Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center published the “Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline” study on Wednesday””discovering that U.S. Internet users are “dangerously ignorant” about online exploitation. Most test-takers failed, answering only an average of 6.7 correctly out of 17 true-or-false questions.

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