Consumer Law

The State of Online Consumer Privacy

By Jeff Sovern

Last week, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held hearings on the State of Online Consumer Privacy.  Here's a quote from the testimony of Chris Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union:

If this collection of data is allowed to continue unchecked, then capitalism will build what the government never could?a complete surveillance state online. Without government intervention, we may soon find the internet has been transformed from a library and playground to a fishbowl, and that we have unwittingly ceded core values of privacy and autonomy.

You can read more quotes in the Committee's press release.  A webcast of the hearings can be found here.  Coverage here.  (Hat tip: Mike Murray)

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).