Hollings Introduces Privacy Bill 296
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.
History Repeats itself (Score:5, Informative)
-Virgil (70-19 BC)
Disney was burned not frozen (Score:4, Informative)
Eisner is sweating bullets that someone will access Walt's medical data and find out that he was scheduled for revival in 2001
Myth Busters! Walter Elias Disney wasn't frozen [snopes.com] but instead cremated two days after he died.
Trojan Horse (Score:4, Informative)
Senatorial chessgame (Score:3, Informative)
It's probably a safe bet that Hollings hasn't suddenly switched his basic pro-media position. If that's so, then this bill may well be a maneuver to counteract someone else's bill.
For instance, in the recent campaign finance reform debates, the opponents of CFR floated a *better* bill, that they knew would not pass, as a way to divide the support for a CFR bill that might pass. This could well be a similar maneuver.
Pay close attention to the men behind the curtains.
This has nothing to do with the CBDTPA (Score:4, Informative)
An older version (Score:3, Informative)
Section by Section analysis (Score:2, Informative)
Enjoy!