Obama Faces Major Online Privacy Test

CNET has a piece on the prospects for an initiative to revamp privacy law for the digital age being put forward by an unlikely coalition that includes Microsoft, Google, privacy advocates, and conservative and libertarian organizations. "When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008, he promised that as president, he would 'strengthen privacy protections for the digital age.' That pledge will be put to the test as the Obama administration considers whether to support a new privacy proposal released by a coalition including Google, eBay, Microsoft, AT&T, the ACLU, and Americans for Tax Reform... The [so-called] Digital Due Process coalition already has met with attorneys from the Justice Department's computer crime unit, White House attorneys, FBI representatives, and Commerce Department officials... the law enforcement meetings were 'respectful' and 'substantive.'"

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[AHuxley]

Within spitting distance of the LRAD trucks.
You are allowed to protest under Obama so the gov can get a face pic, your car's licence plate and your personal 'web 2.0' electronic chatter as you protest.
All that needs to be done in "freedom" for later processing and sorting.
Protest with style, next time you will make a new best friend.
Over time they will have suggestions - if you follow them you will be facing FBI changes.
When Google, eBay, Microsoft, AT&T talk of " privacy" they are thinking of their privacy to sell your data.
When the US gov talks of "privacy" they want to buy the above data without any questions.