41.   Sensitive customer data never are transmitted over the Internet.

42.   The computers will be used for analyzing marketing and customer data.

43.   The electronic retail giant, which specializes in books, revealed it reserves the right to sell its customer data.

44.   The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act allows banks, insurers and brokerages to affiliate under one corporate roof and to exchange customer data with affiliates.

45.   The key is a large database that houses all the customer data.

46.   The system will let businesses collect customer data and then turn around and tailor information to the customer the next time that person does business with the company.

47.   The Web giant now says it will pass along customer data if it is sold to another company.

48.   They compete fiercely to sell the systems used by airlines, banks, and other corporations to track accounts and customer data.

49.   Toysmart.com Inc., a Waltham online retailer, ignited another controversy this spring after it went bankrupt and tried to auction off its customer data.

50.   Toysmart.com gained international notoriety by trying to auction off customer data after promising shoppers it would never do so.