Minnesota Passes First Online Privacy Law

Subotai writes: "Finally a state with a clue. Today, Minnesota passed a law forcing ISPs to notify customers before they sell information about them and tell them how to prevent it." Finally, a nice example of how a bill becomes a law.

Comments

Right on!

[Timmeh]

Screw the stadium, and screw the Twins! Why should people fund a private business that makes more than enough money to buy every team a new stadium every 10 years? They're a monopoly which hides it's revenue by making the food vendors a corporate entity seperate from the baseball teams. Just like movie theatres are in the popcorn and candy business, so is the baseball monopoly in the hot dog and nachos business.

I haven't gone to a Twins game in ages, who needs them? The 'sin tax' is really ridiculous. I remember at the beginning of the budget deficit a bunch of radio pundits and editorals called for a 'fat tax' on all the junk food sold, just like there's a tax on cigarettes, beer, etc. A simple, 'fat tax' would have gotten Minnesota--where a huge portion of our taxes go to health care (can you guess how much goes to treating fat-related illnesses!?)--out of the damn budget problem in a obese man's heart beat.