Privacy advocates write Web bug rules
Privacy from Companies
9/14/2000; 3:17:04 PM 'The Privacy Foundation, a nonprofit privacy group based in Denver, is proposing that Internet advertising companies and Web sites disclose the use of ''Web bugs'' wherever they are found online. Web bugs, or clear GIFs, are tiny images embedded in a Web page or HTML-enhanced email that transmit information to a remote computer when the page is viewed.'