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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your flag pic is missing a stripe by JeanBaptiste · 2002-05-17 09:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

the top one, a red stripe...
mmm... red stripe beer
Re:NYTimes Login by sqlrob · 2002-05-17 09:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Nope. I can't take any credit it for it. My wife found it a couple of weeks ago.