Data collection from users is getting ever more ridiculous. I don't want to join a Cisco mail fest as a condition of white paper that may or may not be any good. And I don't want to have to read through cisco's latest "privacy" statement to find out what I would be giving up. The issue isn't privacy. It is spam. And that may or may not be covered by the privacy policy. I'll read this stuff when it is posted openly on the net. My suspicion is that guys in the marketing dept are just throwing stuff at the wall to see what users will click through on.