J.C. Whitney & Co., a automotive accessories cataloger with annual sales of $170 million, has been acquired by Riverside Co., a leveraged buyout firm. The price was not disclosed.

European data protection policies, those requiring standard contractual privacy clauses, were criticized today by a privacy authority in the United States.

Hanover Direct Inc. will move its in-house data hygiene and merge/purge operations to Experian. The transfer should be completed by the end of July. Hanover

Another 500 employees were let go this month at Fingerhut Cos., bringing the total number of staff to 1,730, down from about 6,000 in January, when parent Federated Department Stores Inc. announced that it would liquidate Fingerhut.

A new magazine subscriber list has drawn the fire of both publishers and list professionals.

Adventurous Fisherman This file has been updated with additional counts. There are 211,711 fishing license buyers for 2001. There are also 37,958 women

Another bill aimed at increasing the government's protection of personal information has been introduced in the Senate. The Federal Privacy and Data Protection

Another bill aimed at increasing the government's protection of personal information has been introduced in the Senate.

Yahoo Inc. announced today that it will debut a service that will let direct marketers send targeted e-mails to consumers based on their search engine activity.

What the UPC bar code did for the retail industry is what a new digital coding system, to be introduced next month, is expected to do for the advertising