FTC Abandons Call for Stronger Privacy Laws

Anonymous Coward writes: "Found this article on CNN explaining that the FTC has decided to not seek stronger consumer privacy laws in the wake of the events of last month. The article also details how several companies broke their own privacy policies by voluntarily giving customer data to federal authorities." The NY Times has an article about this as well, with a couple of good comments from interested parties.

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[TRoLLaXoR]

Rob Malda is an AKA for "Obr al Mad," a known homosexual Islamic extremeist.

Regard him with extreme caution... he believes that by promoting lies about Linux he will be greeted by 69 homosexual boys in heaven, each of which have been molested by Allah!

Ironic

[gscott]

The NY Times, which requires the annoying free registration, has a piece about privacy laws. I also find it interesting that they have this quote on the reg page: Immediately after the events of September 11, we temporarily removed our registration/sign-in requirement to permit as many readers as possible to access developing news stories quickly. We have now restored our registration process. Guess they don't want all those readers anymore.