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Monday, the Federal Trade Commission held a conference to discuss guidelines on how companies collect and store vast amounts of data about consumers for very little money to use it for advertising.

 As FTC reported, there are little in the way of legal requirements to protect consumer information.

 One of the Internet founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee in an interview for the New York Times said that he regrets addition of slash characters to the web's URL address system. He stated that the use of slash characters in the URL was not compulsory and made the web addresses needlessly longer than they could be.

According to Berners-Lee the protocol names such as HTTP or FTP should be separated from the rest of the address but lately it turned out that only the colon was necessary.

According to the figures US government presented Monday, sales of new single-family homes in the country soared more than it had been expected in June. At the same time, the inventory of homes for sale fell to a more than 11-year low. 

As the Commerce Department reported, sales grew by 11% to an annual rate of 384,000 last month, while the number of new homes still for sale fell to 281,000, the lowest level since February 1998.