- EPrivacy Group
ePrivacy Group was a privacy consulting and anti-spam technology firm, founded in 2000 by David Brussin,
Stephen Cobb , James Koenig, Michael Miora, and Vincent Schiavone. The team was later joined by privacy pioneerRay Everett-Church .Headquartered in
Malvern, Pennsylvania , ePrivacy Group engaged in privacy consulting while developing several email-related products. Consulting clients includedMicrosoft MSN andPharmacia . The company's Trusted Sender email authentication application was one of the first anti-phishing technologies, successfully deployed by several organizations such asTruste andAmerican Education Services . [ [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.it.newsscan/2003-05/msg00017.html Newsscan Archives] ]In 2003 the company proposed the
Trusted Email Open Standard , an open version of the Trusted Sender technology. According to one of the company's founders, the 35-page white paper outlining the standard was downloaded over 18,000 times in the first three months of publication. [ [http://cobbsblog.com/spam/index.html TEOS web page] ]ePrivacy Group also developed an anti-spam technology known as "SpamSquelcher" [ [http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/2003/spamsquelcher.html ISP-Planet.com] ] which was later spun off to another company,
TurnTide Inc. In 2004 TurnTide was sold toSymantec for $28 million [ [http://news.cnet.com/Symantec-snaps-up-antispam-firm/2100-7355_3-5266548.html CNET] ] and ePrivacy Group was dissolved.
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