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Trump Administration Asks For Public Input on Data Privacy (cnet.com)
The federal government wants to know the best way to protect your privacy online. On Tuesday, the Department of Commerce released a request for public comments as it outlined the Trump administration's approach to consumer data privacy. A report adds: In the proposal, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a branch under the Commerce Department, recommended privacy regulations focused on giving users control over how their data is used by tech companies. The proposal comes a day before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is set to hold a hearing on consumer privacy, with companies like Apple, Google and Amazon testifying. The Commerce Department found public concern with how personal information has been used by tech companies and is taking a "risk-based flexibility" approach for privacy regulations. "The administration takes these concerns seriously and believes that users should be able to benefit from dynamic uses of their information, while still expecting organizations will appropriately minimize risks to users' privacy," the department wrote in the document.
They'll overwhelm the legitimate responses with bot's giving the responses they want. See look we asked the public this is what they asked for.
Whatever you (the gov't) doesn't want anyone to know about all your "dealings", and the efforts you take to ensure such "dealings" remain secret and hidden from public view....apply to all citizens.
Problem solved /h (maybe)
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
... simply because of the source in 3... 2... 1...
Require companies that intend to collect ANY personal data to put up a bond commensurate with the type of data they collect. If they are found to have sold the data, or allowed through negligence the data to be stolen, then the bond immediately pays out to the effected people, without so much as a whisper from a lawyer.
I know that's all a fantasy, but really these companies need to know that they can't treat people like assets.
Which has more power: the hammer, or the anvil?
After the shit show that was the Net Neutrality comment period? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and.. well... You can't fool me again.
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You get into the habit of using facebook single sign on for a majority of web pages and apps, then you find out facebook buys financial banking data to tie to your account, then they get voting data, surfing history, contacts. Nobody knew back then that facebook would buy companies up, gobble data, to have such indepth view into everyones lives. Its not a cute and fun social networking site anymore.
The Commerce Department found public concern with how personal information has been used by tech companies and is taking a "risk-based flexibility" approach for privacy regulations.
What a load of shit. EVERYONE is going to say, "there's no risk with us!" and they'll do nothing for protections.
Because when data is stolen, there are no repercussions for the firm that had the data stolen. Ahem! Equifax. Anthem and all those other companies that I forgot about because it happens all the time.
Data collected about people is private, people do not, and should not have access to it.
Data sold to companies from people above is private, people should not have knowledge about it, or access to it.
Data breaches are private, and people should have no knowledge about it.
There, I just saved a whole lot of effort. This is what Trump legislation will look like.
The administration takes these concerns seriously and believes that users should be able to benefit from dynamic uses of their information, while still expecting organizations will appropriately minimize risks to users' privacy,
Maybe the first step should be to clarify what the "reasonable" in the reasonable expectation of privacy means? And see what advantages and disadvantages various privacy regulations around the world offer in actual use. Right now the development and assimilation of technology alters the meaning of reasonable all the time. And that "appropriate minimization" is relative and context dependent if it's going to be reasonable for the various companies. The uncertainty around privacy may continue in the worst case.
I hate it when I'm right...
https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12663310&cid=57374002
If they're not sharing some info now they will later. We don't have enough laws to protect it, and I really doubt we ever will. Even if the laws say they can't do X, how can you prove they are?
I say the only two options are live in a hermit shack or just accept it.
only republicans with russian ties and those who swear a blood oath to the dumpster-fire-in-chief should be allowed to have any privacy online...
anyone opposed will (continue to) have their online lives hoovered-up by TLAs and the russians.
AT&T thug: Sir! the president says he wants Americans opinions on ah...privacy...
AT&T Boss: Remember the FCC comments?
AT&T thug: Sure thing boss. Yo! Mikey! fire up the shit-post-o-matic 9000! we've got some "opinions" that need voiced!
Good people go to bed earlier.
Dear [DoC]. I strongly [urge/recommend/ask] the DoC to [rescind/overturn/undo] the rules [set in place/laid down] by [Obama/Wheeler/both], which [take over broadband/control the internet]. [Normal people], as opposed to [elitist liberal bureaucrats], should be able to [use/purchase] the [services/applications/products] they want. The [Obama/Wheeler/both] plan is a [betrayal/exploitation/corruption] of [data privacy/the open internet]. It [undid/reversed/broke] a [light-touch/market-based/pro-consumer] [approach/policy/system] that [worked/functioned/performed] successfully for [a long time] with [bipartisan support].
Imagine a consumer data policy where every user has a hash key they can revoke at any point which would leave data encrypted anywhere he or she has shared it. In order to display an unscrambled picture, the social media site or other tech company would run the user's saved key against another decentralized key authority (like the Bitcoin blockchain or one of the many other crypto blockchains). The user could revoke the key by having control over the decentralized address and remove the designated social media site's individual user key.
Then.. for the law.. Make it illegal for any site to store unscrambled/decrypted photos, video, or other media of user's specifically encrypted content. So, a user could share unscrambled pictures to Facebook.. or encrypted pictures to facebook with an unlock hash key..
I don't have the idea completely thought out.. but ultimately a user should have control over his or her specifically private shared data. Specifically private shared data would be any data shared explicitly to a single party with no intent to distribute to everyone. ie: sharing data to only my 'friends' on Facebook
--- We need more Ron Paul!
Trump Administration Asks For Public Input on Data Privacy
Trump's corrupt, useless, so-called "administration" is asking for public input on something, I'm sure so that they can do the opposite.
As Admiral Akbar said, "It's a trap!"
So fucking tired of this shit.
Please protect our privacy's freedom by eliminating all regulations and thereby accountability, who's only purpose is to job loss and pedophile. The free market will ensure that any company that causes serious harm to millions of Americans will elect to continue offshore inversion, and the resulting rebranding effort will cost a fraction of their tax savings for that fiscal quarter. Those harmed can then praise Jeebus, because they are blessed with a system that already works!
You must be some kind of "born in 2013 baby" because the NSA has been spying on everyone since the 70's. Only a moron would try to blame Obama for that lol. #Get tested Kohath you partisan faggot.
(It's even funnier when you back a traitor like Trump and THEN try to go after Obama using decades old arguments as if brand new)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Wind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
http://digitalmanticore.com/?tag=national-security
https://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domestic-spying-2013-6 * last updated in 1998
Correct what a joke you just never stop crying post some proof or kill your self. What kind of person lets national politics rule your entire life, your local politician effects your life more than who is in the white house. Are you that person screaming on the ground at Trump's inauguration?
The only person that should perform late term abrotion on themselves, is you.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
YOU tried to pretend OBAMA was responsible for a 1970's era data collection regime. YOU are a provably lying punk ass bitch.
Include digital data in the 4th Amendment. Internet, email, and cellular data should be included in those protections. Get a warrant. Period.
Put a 60 day limit on federal govt retention of extra data that isn't active in a legal case. Video, audio, cameras included. Especially GPS and license plate data.
Set an expiration of 1 yr for any NSLs. 1 yr later, they need to be made public.
Right NOT to be tracked by login, name, IP, when online without explicit permission by any internet company.
ISPs shouldn't be allowed to track were customers go on the internet in detail. Allowing this will push people to use VPNs to avoid it, which will make law enforcement just a little harder.
If govt mandates back doors in device encryption, soon everyone will put in add-ons for additional encryption. Instead of 2 problems (iOS and Android), the Govt will have 50 problems.
Those are the beginning.
There's no link anywhere to provide your input. Nothing on CNet's site in the story (well, duh, they don't want the restrictions), but I couldn't find it on the DoC's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's website either.
Is this a farce?
Maybe it's news to you TRUMP FAGGOTS with your constant HONESTY PROBLEMS, but Obama wasn't the President when the NSA began "collect it all" mandates. YOU ARE A LYING FAGGOT, KOHATH.
It's sad that your party has made that a virtue.
The way Europe has dealt with this - via General Data Protection Regulation has exposed one of the biggest cross-atlantic differences - in Europe, the people have the upper hand on large corporations in influencing government. In the US, itâ(TM)s quite the opposite.
GDPR is a long bit of text, but fundamentals can be summarised as follows
1. The consumer owns the data companies hold on them
2. The data can only be used for purposes that the consumer has consented to
3. Lack of consumer consent cannot constitute grounds to refuse service unless necessary for performance of the service
4. If a company wants to share the data with third parties, they can only do so with consumer consent
This will never happen in the US.
How about Trump getting public input on the rampant greed in the Health Care Industry? It's the one thing he has not touched as far as I know. The high cost of health care is rendering our population poor as a third world country.
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
"Nixon was forced from office for less" - Said the deplorable Trump faggot desperate to save his obese orange traitor-antihero from the firing squad.
GTFO Ivan, go home you're sober.
Because CNET doesn't want you actually expressing your thoughts on privacy, I'll provide the goods: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/feder...
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is requesting comments on ways to advance consumer privacy while protecting prosperity and innovation. NTIA is seeking public comments on a proposed approach to this task that lays out a set of user-centric privacy outcomes that underpin the protections that should be produced by any Federal actions on consumer-privacy policy, and a set of high-level goals that describe the outlines of the ecosystem that should be created to provide those protections.
Written comments identified by Docket No. 180821780-8780-01 may be submitted by email to privacyrfc2018@ntia.doc.gov. Comments submitted by email should be machine-readable and should not be copy-protected. Written comments also may be submitted by mail to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room 4725, Attn: Privacy RFC, Washington, DC 20230.
"and Obama went to bat for them by lying to the public, on camera, about it." - Quote him doing so, otherwise TRUMP is the biggest liar in American history either way.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/08/01/president-trump-has-made-4229-false-or-misleading-claims-in-558-days/
Treasonous dithering dishonest faggots like Sexconker will not be forgotten when Trump hangs. He'll be remembered with extreme prejudice.
ALL the traitors will be.
This will go away or be watered down to nothing.
Trump's administration is the swamp, and the swamp likes money.
Expect the GOP, and sadly, some Dems, to start raking in the campaign money.
At the end of the day, Trump will do what benefits him and his rich asshole friends ... because he's a crook and con man, and because he's the worst form of mercantilist in terms of his minimal understanding of economics.
He's not going to give you privacy if it cuts into the profits of the greedy assholes he wants to ensure get their cut.
But, hey, that's OK .. he can stand in front of the UN claiming to be the best ever in front of a bunch of people who know how much of a lying shitbag he is. The problem is the retards who voted for him believe this shit, but nobody else does.
Tiny hands, tiny brain, tiny little mushroom penis and all.
LOL ... America first? Only into the shitter.
At no point did I defend Trump or play your hypocritical whataboutism game.
You are an idiot. See above for my full reply to someone who deserves a full response.
You are an idiot and hypocrite.
Either Trump colluded with Russia, or literally everyone around him did and he had no idea. He's either a traitor or a buffoon.
You should seek therapy. All this social media and mainstream media is causing some very serious psychological problems for you.
Shut the TV off, go outside and enjoy the real world instead of being a foaming-at-the-mouth idiot.
"but that doesn't imply they are not actually willing to discuss your ideas and debate theirs." Ajit Pai using shillbots to accomplish spamming his "feedback" servers in a pseudo-DDOS with cookie-cutter cut/paste jobs in his favor, that does.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/ajit-pais-fcc-lied-about-ddos-attack-ex-chairs-statement-indicates/
Any law restricting the use of free speech of the public that is directed to a private corporation would be violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
My experience with the public comment process is that some types of comments have worked, some don't. We got changes we wanted, when we used certain approaches.
Regulators already HAVE the bumper stickers. As you mentioned, saying "impeach Trump!" isn't going to inspire any edits to the regulation. Neither is "fuck Facebook", or anything else that fits on a bumper sticker. A bumper sticker slogan won't give regulators any new information or new ideas on which to base changes.
My experience is that sending well thought out, specific suggestions which take into account different people's perspectives works. How does privacy regulation affect your job? What would be good changes that make things work better for you, in your personal life and I your job? What proposed changes could create problems? Can you suggest a way to FIX the proposal to make it better?
That last question is the big one. To pick randomly regulation I commented on, the initial draft off the FAA "drone" defined the terms in such a way that it would apply to a paper airplane. You'd need to register your paper airplane with the FCC before throwing it. The foam glider toys you get for $8, those would need to be registered, under the original definition of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. How about only powered objects? That would include the rubber band powered windup plane in the toy aisle of the supermarket. The palm-sized quadcopters that can only fly indoors - do they really need to be registered with the FAA? Lots of people made comments about what a reasonable definition of an UAV would be, and the FAA adopted a sane definition.
In previous instances it's been "it's been proposed that Foo, Bar, and Baz be exempt. Suggest adding Fum to the list", or "suggest changing 'under 3 pounds' to 'under 10 pounds because ...".
Your tears fuel me, please continue the weeping.
He just got laughed at during a speech to the UN where he was trying to blow smoke about all his accomplishments. This is not a president that I want trying to fix anything important.
The NTIA is staffed with good people. They're not Trump appointees and they do care about the Internet and civil liberties.
I strongly urge people to submit public input. It will be read.
He'll be remembered with extreme prejudice.
No doubt, I'm sure you'll hatestrangle your micropenis while screaming incoherently at your monitor come 2020, but don't worry - I'm sure Sexconker won't be too weirded out by your Doritos dust-stained clitty. After all, what with never leaving the basement, it's not like he's ever going to actually encounter you outside of Slashdot, is it?
After the Stormy Daniels eye witness report, of course Trump wants everyone to comment on his privates.
Of course the fact that Russian accounts were used to run ads supporting Killary and organize Anti-Trump rallies never enters into the discussion because Trump Derangement Syndrome has infected everyone.
Honestly, fuck off and die with that fucktarded shit you fucking fuck fucker.
Here's where you can actually comment (sort of the point of the article), go to it folks: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/feder...
then I'm against it! Resist!!
He drove a lot? Oh Jesus!
Were you at all upset at the $40m vacation Hillary and Chelsea took to Egypt when Bill was in office?
We have the greatest privacy....the best. No one has better privacy than us, okay? The best. An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me our privacy is the best. I have tremendous respect for privacy. Any negative polls on privacy are fake news, okay. We will build a great privacy firewall – and nobody builds firewalls better than us, believe me – and we’ll build them very inexpensively. And make Mexico pay. Mark my words. Our Twitter has become so powerful that we can actually make enemies respect our privacy.
Actually, I don't care so much about corporations seeing my data. They don't assert the right to drone-strike me without due process.
The government, on the other hand...
I'd be great if this can include ISPs, cell phone companies, and credit reporting agencies too. I'd really like to opt-out of their data collection.
He's certainly doing a great job fixing the economy.
As of today, black unemployment, hispanic unemployment, youth unemployment, and women's unemployment are all the lowest they've been in many years (for those of you educated by unionized school teachers, AKA Democrat activist propagandists on the public dole, that means "better than during Bush or Obama").
Consumer confidence is higher than at any time in the past 17 years.
The laughing at that point in the UN speech was probably at how Trump was being Trump with his self-aggrandizing blurb about his accomplishments - but if you listened to the end you would have notices that he did get a pretty good applause. You guys that despise him need to pay a little more attention.
To keep your nose out!