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DoubleClick announced that it will tell Web users how they can avoid having their online behavior tracked by the company. Company president Kevin Ryan said that the company will use its 50 million banner ads to tell users how they can 'opt out.' DoubleClick, the biggest Internet ad- serving company, wants to link consumers' online behavior with data in Abacus, a huge database of consumers' offline catalog purchasing habits.
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DoubleClick officials announced that they would discontinue their attempts to correlate online Web behavior of consumers with their purchasing patterns until clear government and industry privacy guidelines have been established. The firm had been criticized by privacy groups and was notified by the Federal Trade Commission and attorney generals from New York and Michigan that they would conduct probes into its practices.
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Black Entertainment Television Inc's (BET) former CFO Dwight Crawford has filed a $21-million lawsuit in Washington, DC, against the company's founder Robert Johnson. Charging he was dismissed in Jan 2000 for not cooperating, Crawford accused Johnson of financial mismanagement and fraudulent tax filings. The lawsuit further accuses Johnson of dodging withholding taxes for some production employees and providing false information about BET's $10 million investment in Urban City Foods.
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