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Minnesota Bill Would Prevent Disclosure of Web Habits

Posted by timothy on from the how-quaint-an-idea dept.

jweb writes: "The Minneapolis Star Tribune is running an article about a bill in the Minnesota legislature that would make it illegal for an ISP to disclose personal information about websites that its customers visit. According to the article, this bill has passed both houses of the legislature, with one key difference: the House version requires customers to 'opt-out' of this information-sharing, but the Senate version would be 'opt-in', requiring the customer to specifically state that they would like their personal information made available. Not suprisingly, AOL and Yahoo are lobbying against it."

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  1. Mozilla, not Minnesota! by leviramsey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0 is very close at hand, with a due date of "sometime next week" for 1.0RC1.