Hollings Introduces Privacy Bill

Dynedain writes "Senator Disney (aka Hollings) is apparently trying to get on techies' good side. ZDnet is reporting he is proposing a bill for 'net privacy' requiring opt-in agreements when companies want to sell 'sensitive' information (medical history, sexual preference, etc.) and opt-out agreements when selling non-sensitive (buying habits). US Chamber of Commerce is opposing this." Another article on Newsbytes notes that there are likely to be several privacy bills floating around, offering different levels of actual protection.

In several newspaper op-ed columns

[wiredog]

I've seen him referred to as "Senator Hollings (D-Disney)".

What Disney wants...

[WinPimp2K]

Nope, Eisner is sweating bullets that someone will access Walt's medical data and find out that he was scheduled for revival in 2001, but that some one named M. Eisner MD, delayed the procedure till a date (in true MD handwriting) that looks suspiciously like "hell freezes over"

RE: Hollings Introduces Privacy Bill

[Anonymous Coward]

heart pills: $50

insulin: $25

viagra: $60

two ended dildo: $45

slippery jim's anal lube: $6

requiring opt-out to share your buying habits and opt-in for your medical history and/or sexual preferences: priceless.

Limiting growth of the Internet?

[PolyDwarf]

From the article...

"Privacy fears are stifling the development and expansion of the Internet as an engine of economic growth," Hollings, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said in a statement.

Gee... I thought it was lack of strong encryption on every single digital device known to man or beast that was stifling the development and expansion of the Internet?