Senator Prevents Action on Online Privacy Bill

Posted by michael on Friday May 17, 2002 @08:18AM from the sabot-in-the-gears dept.

securitas writes "The NYTimes tells us Senator Trent Lott forced the Senate Commerce Committee to adjourn this morning as it was on the verge of adopting an online privacy bill requiring ISPs and commercial Web sites to get customers' permission before they could disclose important personal information. That would include financial, medical, ethnic, religious and political information along with Social Security data and sexual orientation. I urge Trent Lott's constituents to make your voices heard on this. Same goes for readers whose senators serve on the Senate Commerce Committee." Salon and EPIC have written about Hollings' bill.

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Good, we should be glad it is defeated. by nuggz · 2002-05-17 08:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

Read the bill, or at least the comments WHY he shut it down.

I think that it shouldn't happen. This bill legalizes sharing of much personal information WITHOUT authorization.
It also legitimizes those constantly changing TOS that "by continuing to use the service you agree to"

This is NOT a personal privacy bill, this in an anti privacy bill.

Disagree with me if you want, but at least see what the bill and issues are BEFORE you go off half cocked complaining about this.

The Senator from Disney is sponsoring this bill, which many others have pointed out.