White House To Push Privacy Bill Of Rights

wsj.com:

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress Wednesday to pass a "privacy bill of rights" to protect Americans from intrusive data gathering, amid growing concern about the tracking and targeting of Internet users.

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Comments

[Genders]

05:51 PM on 03/17/2011

Sorry, I bet it protects corporate person better than citizens.

[hamsteronwheel]

10:36 AM on 03/17/2011

we are all hamsters on neocon "financially engineered" wheels...

1/24/11

Justice Department seeks mandatory data retention

""Data retention is fundamental to the department's work in investigating and prosecuting almost every type of crime," Jason Weinstein, deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal division, will say, according to his written testimony.

The Bush Justice Department endorsed such proposals under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Tomorrow's announcement demonstrates that the Obama Justice Department is following suit and appears to be its first public statement embracing mandatory data retention.

That aligns the Justice Department with data retention's more aggressive supporters among House Republicans and places it at odds with privacy advocates, civil libertarians, and the Internet industry. Those groups have questioned the privacy, liability, cost, and scope, including whether businesses such as coffee shops would be required to identify and monitor whoever uses their wireless connections.

Or it could be more intrusive, sweeping in online service providers, and involve keeping track of e-mail and instant-messaging correspondence and what Web pages users visit. Some Democratic politicians have previously called for data retention laws to extend to domain name registries and Web hosting companies and even social-networking sites. An FBI attorney said last year that the bureau supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information," meaning logs of which Web sites are visited. "

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029423-281.html?tag=nl.e703

[Rhancheck]

05:13 PM on 03/16/2011

I guess the mods are grumpy today

they didnt seem to like like my idea of Zuckerberg teaming up with this guy to make a learn all the trash about your friends website

[J0E1]

01:05 PM on 03/16/2011

Give me a break.  Protecting my privacy from advertisers while secretly passing laws to open up my entire life to the government... typical.

[tgiovanni]

01:00 PM on 03/16/2011

While I applaud the government's and the industry's efforts to protect privacy, the proposed procedure is faulty to begin with, because it forces the user to specify if they don't want to be tracked.

instead, the default setting should be to not track a user, unless that user has given the advertiser explicit permission to do so.