... Desai¹

The author is a professor in the Department of Computer Science of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. E-mail: bcdesai@cs.concordia.ca

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... societies²

The recent denial of service attacks is one such instance of such acts.

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... millennium³

Which really starts on January 1, 2001

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... concerned⁴

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information voluntarily turned over to third parties.

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... standard⁵

The ten points are: Accountability, Identifying purposes, Consent, Limiting collection, Limiting use, disclosure, and retention; Accuracy, Safeguards, Openness, Individual access, Challenging compliance

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... block⁶

As in Canada where International trade is within Federal jurisdiction while other trade is under provincial jurisdiction.

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