Editing Consumer privacy (section)

===1990s===
Through the 1990s, the proliferation of [[mobile telecom]], the introduction of [[customer relationship management]], and the use of the [[Internet]] in [[developed nation]]s brought the situation to the forefront, and most countries had to implement strong consumer privacy laws, often over the objections of business. The [[European Union]] and [[New Zealand]] passed particularly strong laws that were used as a template for more limited laws in [[Australia]] and [[Canada]] and some states of the [[United States]] (where no federal law for consumer privacy exists, although there are requirements specific to banking and telecom privacy). In [[Austria]] around the 1990s, the mere mention of a client's name in a semi-public social setting was enough to earn a junior bank executive a stiff jail sentence.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-06-22|title=Consumer Privacy: Meaning, Principles and Example|url=https://www.businessmanagementideas.com/crm/consumer-privacy-meaning-principles-and-example/3662|access-date=2020-12-06|website=Essays, Research Papers and Articles on Business Management|language=en-US}}</ref>