31.   Internet retailers assert they can regulate themselves by disclosing on their sites whether and how they might use customer data accrued when visitors join sites or make purchases.

32.   Internet customer data can command a high price if it contains a large number of repeat buyers and extensive information about their preferences, online retailers said.

33.   It alters almost everything managers do, from finding suppliers to coordinating projects to collecting and managing customer data.

34.   It makes a difference to myriad tasks that managers do daily, from locating new suppliers to coordinating projects to collecting and managing customer data.

35.   It then resells customer data to other retailers in the form of mailing lists.

36.   It will provide the same sort of convenience promised by Passport, but companies would not have to share their customer data with Microsoft or anybody else.

37.   Not everyone takes a hard line against the sale of customer data.

38.   Pipeline Communications supplies the registration software to companies, collects the customer data in Atlanta and sends it along to the companies.

39.   RCN spokesman James Maiella declined to provide customer data.

40.   Qwest is standing its ground based on a U.S. appeals court decision and insists it will share customer data only with other Qwest firms and some partners.