On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy

storagedude writes "There are at least five US government efforts underway to regulate data and online privacy, according to a new US government internet policy official, who sees some kind of privacy regulation as likely. Ari Schwartz, who left the Center for Democracy and Technology two months ago to become senior internet policy advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, says issues like Facebook's never-ending privacy concerns are making some kind of a national law or regulation more and more likely. He thinks segregating identity from data isn't enough; the data must then be aggregated after identity is stripped out. He also called for objective measures of privacy compliance."

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Re:And one by one...

[Pharmboy]

Are we sure all 5 of these are actually attempts to -preserve- privacy?

I'm sure they are all designed to protect privacy, in the same manner as the L.A. Police were trying to preserve the peace when they pulled over Rodney King. Subjective, perhaps, but in someone's eyes, I'm sure they are all "good" bills.

In Soviet Russia,

[blair1q]

Privacy regulates you!