Controversial site Jigsaw: questions abound over alleged disregard for privacy

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Controversial site Jigsaw: questions abound over alleged disregard for privacy

09-08-2006, 10:07 AM,

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Controversial site Jigsaw: questions abound over alleged disregard for privacy

Quote:With his perfectly shaved head, Jim Fowler looks like Mr. Clean. But don't be fooled. The CEO of San Mateo's Jigsaw Data Corp. prefers to liken himself to another famous cue ball: Dr. Evil.

In taking on the identity of Austin Powers' archenemy, Fowler is riffing on the reputation he's gaining online as a man willing to knock down established social mores, while showing what critics say is an utter disregard for people's privacy.

The furor is over Jigsaw's system of encouraging people to enter business contacts into an easily accessible Web database. Sign up at the site, www.jigsaw.com, and you can get points for entering the contents of your Rolodex. You can even sell those points for money...

full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...KU7LD1.DTL&hw=jigsaw&sn=001&sc=1000

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