Editor's Notes-The Privacy Dilemma

As this issue of Catalog Success went to press, the Enron scandal still dominated the headlines. News reports are featuring pictures of Enron officials testifying with worried grimaces in front of incredulous—even hostile—legislators. And in January, Eli Lilly settled with federal officials regarding an online consumer privacy complaint after a junior-level employee of the pharmaceutical firm inadvertently sent an e-mail that exposed the names of registrants to the company's Prozac Web site. The settlement amount was undisclosed, but the rumor mill at the Privacy Summit was that it was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.