The Online Privacy Alliance: Select one: a. encourages self-regulation to develop a set of privacy guidelines for its members. b. protects user privacy during interactions with websites. c. has established technical guidelines for ensuring privacy. d. is a government agency regulating the use of customer information. e. is a safe harbor program established by the U. S. government.

a. encourages self-regulation to develop a set of privacy guidelines for its members.

Explanation:

The Online Privacy Alliance establish and endorse self regulation to encourage the security and privacy of individuals online and in electronic commerce. This supports the privacy policies and applicable laws in order to protect the privacy of individuals and also promotes the wide understanding and engagement of companies, non-profits, policy makers and customers in Coalition initiatives. This benefited the online internet privacy and e-commerce.

The correct answer is letter "A": encourages self-regulation to develop a set of privacy guidelines for its members.

Explanation:

The Online Privacy Alliance (OPA) of 1998 joined major companies influential in e-commerce to define what privacy policy is regarding internet use. The OPA created a set of guidelines pushing the OPA company members to use them in their web pages. As an organization, the OPA promoted self-regulatory initiatives to incentivize trust in e-commerce.