Washington takes the right Internet
The Congress-headers in the final straight for the 1999 legislative session, members to familiarize themselves with a full plate of bills via the Internet. You want to stem the tide of your personal data; spam to keep your children and overwhelming to make the site secure, happy place to do business. If you use the Internet (and I know you do), these questions about yourself. But you do not have to read the Congress elections Record lift regularly Washington accélérer’s Possen. Here’s the lowdown on bills that may have the greatest impact on what you (but bearing in mind that this policy is perhaps not).Representatives of several accounts in the context of privacy online, but few acts likely to Congress the text of the Federal Trade Commission report on this subject, given that the time to read. None of these accounts has great excitement among the defenders of privacy, lobbying for the adoption of a comprehensive law to regulate the collection and sharing of information.
The proposed Consumer Internet Privacy Protection Act of 1999 (HR-313), introduced by Rep. Bruce Vento (D-Minnesota, vento@mail.house.gov), aims to resolve, as Internet service providers, information about you. Vento bill would require your ISP to obtain written permission before other people access the information you have provided and disclose all information they collected and shared, that data. Earlier this meeting, Bob Czech Frank (R-New Jersey, franksnj@mail.house.gov), a similar bill - called the Social Security On-line Privacy Protection Act of 1999 (HR-367). However, neither bill currently covers Web sites. Unless the change is the case, the bill does not protect consumers, where they are most vulnerable.
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