Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
For the past month, online companies have considered the privacy legislation discussion draft from Rep. Boucher and Stearns. The legislation is a broad attempt to set privacy defaults for the collection, use and sharing of information on the Internet. Last Friday, NetChoice submitted comments to Rep. Boucher and Stearns. While there are some aspects of [...]
Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, released its long-awaited online privacy bill discussion draft, requiring that users opt-in to certain types of online data collection. Berin Szoka and I issued the following statement in response: By mandating a hodge-podge of restrictive regulatory defaults, policymakers could unintentionally [...]
By Adam Thierer & Berin Szoka Opt-in mandates may soon be coming to an Internet near you! Rick Boucher, House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman, is expected to soon introduce the privacy bill he’s been working on behind closed doors for many months. At the heart of the bill is supposed to be a mandate [...]
Note the disclaimer below, emphasized here Seventy years ago yesterday, German troops invaded Poland. Thus began World War II—after twenty years of rising tension in Europe. For the next eight months, the world sat waiting for the other shoe to drop—the sitzkrieg (literally “sitting war”) or “Phoney War,” as the English dubbed it. Finally, Germany [...]
February 13, 2012
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