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Obama's Privacy Bill of Rights: Just a Beginning

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 23, 2012 @10:13AM from the how-to-water-down-a-phrase dept.

jfruh writes "Last night the White House hastily arranged a phone conference at which a 'Privacy Bill of Rights' was announced. It's an important document, not least because it affirms the idea that our data belongs to us, not to companies that happen to collect it. But it has a number of shortcomings, not least among them the companies aren't required to respect the rules laid out."

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You are incredibly naive if you believe Obama here by RocketRabbit · 2012-02-23 10:27 · Score: -1, Troll

Our Magic Obama has only announced this non-binding, suggestion based "bill of rights" to get people to think that something is actually being done to protect our privacy.
What's funny is that the usual group of cheerleaders will say that, hey (as with the Magic Health Care Bill) at least Obama is doing something. I would argue that doing something that's terrible is worse than doing nothing at all.