Hollings Introduces Privacy Bill

Dynedain writes "Senator Disney (aka Hollings) is apparently trying to get on techies' good side. ZDnet is reporting he is proposing a bill for 'net privacy' requiring opt-in agreements when companies want to sell 'sensitive' information (medical history, sexual preference, etc.) and opt-out agreements when selling non-sensitive (buying habits). US Chamber of Commerce is opposing this." Another article on Newsbytes notes that there are likely to be several privacy bills floating around, offering different levels of actual protection.

Comments

Re:Great idea but what about amateurs?

[L1nUx h4x0r]

You really are a moron, aren't you?

The idea of "opt-in" or "opt-out" is when a company sells the info collected to another company or uses it to otherwise market things. If you're not using this information for these purposes, then you don't have to worry.

Be a good karma whore and /think/ before you write next time.