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More on Internet Privacy Legislation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the prior-proper-planning-protects-privacy dept.

Last week we noted that Senator Hollings had introduced a privacy bill and that there were likely to be more introduced. Now Salon has a piece critical of Hollings' bill. EPIC wrote about it as well, and they seem to think it's not too bad, all things considered. Read Hollings' bill yourself and decide who's right. Also of note is a bill introduced in the House that would require all Federal agencies to prepare privacy impact statements (the ACLU has a summary) akin to the environmental impact statements now required for actions adversely affecting the environment. Seems like a good idea to me.

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  1. Voices from the Hellstorung! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Uh oh! 17 German kids dead in a school rampage. I didn't know they had
    FPS games and Lunix in Germany! I thought it was all yodelling and beer
    drinking and shit like that.

    's/Columbine/Erfurt/g'

    But wait! There's more! In a cruel irony, Voices from the Hellmouth was
    published on April 26. Today is April 26.

    Don't believe me?

    See for yourself!

    Anyways, Katz bullshit aside, I thought we took guns away from the Germans
    or something? You give them a few Lugars and the next thing you know they're
    fucking rolling tanks through your city. I'm glad we disarmed them and allowed
    them to only build cars but I'm a little confused as to how something like
    this can happen?

  2. In Other News: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2002-04-26 18:32:50 Vivendi Shareholder meeting hacked (articles,news) (rejected)

    No joke. You'll read about it in the major media soon. Bloomberg news reported it minutes ago.

    1. Re:In Other News: by EastCoastSurfer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You haven't yet figured out that slashdot cannot post timely news. It must be old news to be on slashdot.

  3. wesley willis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rock over london, rock on chicago
    chuck e cheeses: it's where little kids pee in the ball pit

  4. Basis of the law by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The fucking basis of the law is that people won't sign up for broadband unless fucking Hollywood puts their content online. Don't they fucking know that 1) people are already signing up for broadband at a pretty good rate and 2) the content of Hollywood is already online? The fucking horse is out of the barn already. This is a fucking example of astonishing cluelessness.

    --
    Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
  5. Nice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was trying to download the schools blurb thing. What's a .doc format ?
    Is that widely supported ?