1.   And it would authorize the commission to penalize companies that violate privacy rules.

2.   Because of strict privacy rules, few details and no names of victims had been disclosed.

3.   A combined version of the privacy rules is included in the federal spending legislation nearing final passage in Congress.

4.   A spokesmen said that under privacy rules they could not describe the punishment.

5.   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.

6.   EUROPE OPENS NEW MICROSOFT INQUIRY The European Commission said it had begun an inquiry into Microsoft because of concerns that its .NET Passport system violated privacy rules.

7.   He believes the Commerce Department should help set privacy rules to protect Internet users, and uniform standards to make sure different technologies are easy to use for consumers.

8.   If she confided in her own mother, privacy rules.

9.   In any case, information could be shared only with other companies that had agreed to follow the same privacy rules as the firm collecting the data.

10.   Last week, the Clinton administration said it would give Internet businesses more time to develop their own privacy rules to protect information they collect from customers.