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| | Wired News: Feds Slam GeoCities on Privacy |
 | | In the consent agreement announced Thursday, GeoCities (GCTY), which offers free Web pages to consumers, agreed to a range of concessions for what the commission said were violations of its customers' privacy and misuse of personal information. |
 | | "GeoCities has misled its customers, both children and adults, by not telling the truth about how it was using their personal information," said Jodie Bernstein, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection in a statement. |
 | | A GeoCities spokesman declined an interview with Wired News, stating that the company was in a "quiet period," in the wake of its IPO. |
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