Strong Online Privacy Bill Introduced

Masem writes "Senator John Edwards (NC) is introducing a strong privacy bill to Congress, as reported by CNN. While CNN's details are sketchy, the bill would require commercial web sites to ask permission from the user before a cookie can be set or personal information collected. Needless to say, this is an ideal time to snail-mail your representative or senator and ask them to vote in favor of this bill. Of interest that I cannot locate is if this allows 'grandfather' protection of existing data, or will all commercial sites have to start anew by erasing their databases and recollecting the information."