1.   American privacy activists have long sought federal legislation that would require all US companies to adhere to such practices.

2.   A similar software called CookieCutter will be available in January from Pretty Good Privacy Inc., a company founded by noted privacy activist Phil Zimmermann.

3.   After the pornography scandal was disclosed this spring, Thiemann became something of a reluctant cause celebre among internet privacy rights activists.

4.   But computer privacy activist Jim Warren said parents and teachers, not prosecutors, should screen Internet content.

5.   But privacy activists have raised questions about the security of the software used to control the number.

6.   But such disclosures are exactly the kinds of practices that concern privacy activists.

7.   European governments and privacy activists warned that unless American Internet companies adopted EU-style privacy rules, they might be barred from selling to EU citizens.

8.   Intel had sought to address these concerns in meetings with the American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy activists.

9.   Privacy activists argue that the benefit to security is questionable and the cost to privacy is high.

10.   Privacy activists still chafe at the idea that the FBI and the NSA claim a voice in setting communications policy.