House Dems push for online privacy bill

Source: UPI

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives say they're pushing for an "online privacy Bill of Rights" after revelations of growing browser tracking.

U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., leader of the House Privacy Caucus, says he's assembling the provisions for legislation that would require Web site operators such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to disclose whether and how they monitor the site browsing activities of individual users and then sell that information to advertisers, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

"Our responsibility is to make sure that we create a law that, regardless of the technology, includes a set of legal guarantees that consumers have with respect to their information," Markey told The Post.

In communications with the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Google said it doesn't engage in a troublesome technology known as deep-packet inspection. But it did tell lawmakers it had begun to use the "DoubleClick ad-serving cookie," a code that allows the tracking of Web surfing, the Post reported.

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make all legal issues/disputes actionable in the USERS jurisdiction, NOT the website/provider's jurisdiction.

those would be good additions to this bill.

btw everytime u delete cookies u erase the doubleclick opt out option lol

Msongs

anti-privacy stand.

surely they've pleased us fully these past two years, right? right??? At least some of them have, and continue to.

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We need a Privacy Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Even though the Constitution states that we have rights both enumerated, and unenumerated, and the beginning of our legal system began being based on Common Law, now because of precedence, The Patriot Acts, selective prosecuton by Attorneys, and false charges, we need to start enumerating our rights in order to have them secured Constitutionally.

How is this going to change things?