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The objective of this paper is to evaluate the level of concern on the privacy protection in Mongolia. Most of the people think the level of concern on privacy protection in Mongolia must be poor since the information infrastructure has started being built recently. We can see the level of concern on privacy protection indirectly by checking whether respective web sites have the statement on privacy protection in their home pages. Therefore, I selected 179 Mongolian web sites and evaluated those sites whether the sites satisfy the 14 principles of the OECD Guidelines which has been the foundation for the various countries' privacy laws and regulations or not. The results of the analysis have found that the level of privacy protection in Mogolia is very poor. Only 2.8%(5 out of 179 web sites) of the Mongolian web sites have been posting "the Privacy Policy" in their home pages. Even those five web sites did not follow the 14 items of the OECD Guidelines satisfactorily. Especially, none of the five web sites which have the privacy policy includes the statement on the children's privacy protection in the privacy policy. These result on the children's privacy protection in Mongolian web sites is not the problem of Mongolia alone. Many countries in the world also neglect in protecting children's online privacy. In conclusion, considering the results of this paper, I suggest that Mongolian government should request and regulate Mongolian web sites more actively to post the privacy policy in their home pages as a first step to increase the level of concern on privacy protection. Eventually, the privacy protection legislation should be made and implemented to enforce the privacy protection overall. The limitation of this research is the following: the choice of web sites, which were surveyed for this project, is not statistically significant nor is it representative of all online services in Mongolia. Also, the survey for the web sites has been done in August 2002. Hence, I expect the percentage of the web sites which is posting the privacy policy in the home pages must have increased in Mongolia as of 2004. I hope somebody does the new research to find out the recent development and the increase in the level of concern on the privacy protection in Mongolia.