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.

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[austad]

Finally a state with a clue.

While this law is cool, I wouldn't say MN has a clue. They are forcing everyone to pay for our new stadium by the imposition of a "sin tax". The tax is in effect on some stuff in Minneapolis now, and will roll out to the whole state by 2004. Tax is $1 on a bottle of beer, around $3.50 on a pack of cigarettes, $5 for a lap dance (I shit you not), and taxes on lingerie and other such things.

While it's true that you don't need to buy these things if you don't want to pay for the stadium, it sucks for those of us who regularly buy these things and could give a rats ass about the stadium.

Re:Is it really called the sin tax?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ventura is the root of most of the State's problems. He's an idiot. I wish people would have listened to him when he said he was going to screw over the state when he was running. He is following through with his half-wit ideas. Everyone around the country thinks he's so rad because he's a wrestler. There's a reason that no place else has a wrestler for a governor. Other states' voters realize that wrestlers are idiots, but don't seem to make the connection with Jesse. I wish you people could live here and see what he's really like...