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New report calls for online privacy bill of rights - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-report-calls-for-online-apf-4060122555.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&cc ode= - broken link)
tell them to keep their stinkin paws away from the net. Before you know it, you will need a license just to go on the net and comply with 15 different regulations to run a blog or website.
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he proposal, outlined in a Commerce Department report Thursday, is intended to address growing unease about the vast amounts of personal information that companies are scooping up on the Net -- from Web browsing habits to smart phone locations to Facebook preferences. That data is often mined to target advertising.
O Please!! Give me a break, who here has "unease" about their vast amounts of personal information ?? what a friggin farce, they are making sh1t up to force feed you a "bill of rights" when the internet works just fine for us. As if people don't know how to turn their cookies off. What a joke! We are not sheeple, people.
New report calls for online privacy bill of rights - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-report-calls-for-online-apf-4060122555.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&cc ode= - broken link)
tell them to keep their stinkin paws away from the net. Before you know it, you will need a license just to go on the net and comply with 15 different regulations to run a blog or website.
O Please!! Give me a break, who here has "unease" about their vast amounts of personal information ?? what a friggin farce, they are making sh1t up to force feed you a "bill of rights" when the internet works just fine for us. As if people don't know how to turn their cookies off. What a joke! We are not sheeple, people.
Educate yourself before ranting.
People who use the phrase 'sheeple' are, in my experience, some of the worse 'followers' around.
New report calls for online privacy bill of rights - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-report-calls-for-online-apf-4060122555.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&cc ode= - broken link)
tell them to keep their stinkin paws away from the net. Before you know it, you will need a license just to go on the net and comply with 15 different regulations to run a blog or website.
O Please!! Give me a break, who here has "unease" about their vast amounts of personal information ?? what a friggin farce, they are making sh1t up to force feed you a "bill of rights" when the internet works just fine for us. As if people don't know how to turn their cookies off. What a joke! We are not sheeple, people.
I agree it's not about "rights" at all, it's just a way to begin restrictions. They can't come right out and say they want to shut people up so they use the back door approach.
People who use the phrase 'sheeple' are, in my experience, some of the worse 'followers' around.
what part of the highlighted sticking points did you miss??:
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It would also set clearer limits on the use of this information and would require companies to secure the data they gather.
In addition to these broad principles, the Commerce Department also envisions specific codes of conduct for particular segments of the Internet ecosystem. Those could include social network sites, services that deliver location-based pitches to mobile devices and Web publishers and marketers that target ads based on a consumer's browsing activity and other online behavior.
Those codes of conduct would be voluntary, but enforceable. The FTC could take actions against companies that commit to abiding by the codes and then don't comply.
More regulation of the internet will not improve anything. "FTC could take actions" is a slippery slope to full blown laws and regulations online. Want to start a website or blog? Pay the license fee and register with the FTC. Want to post content on internet message boards? please provide C-D with your Social security # and legal name address phone. No thank you, everyone with some net-sense sees where it's headed. Everything the gov't touches gets ruined, censored, more expensive, more layers of paperwork to comply with the new regulations. All in the name of "internet bill of rights", my ass. They love to take away any type of freedom of speech.
In the end the privacy abuse on the Internet is the reason that makes some worried people think of ways to protect users in the first place. Unfortunately, there are a lot of companies out there whose self-imposed privacy policies are not worth a dime.
The notion that government via the FTC can somehow guarantee privacy through layers of bureaucracy and wrongheaded rules is a complete joke, unless you just want a quick warm fuzzy.
It also opens the door to more overreach, as is generally the rule when government sets out to make things "safer" or better for us helpless peasant's.
If people are that concerned, they can simply log-off and go about their lives.
There are also some pretty heavy data security regulations for any website that accepts credit cards.
Ask your ISP about data retention laws...
There are already a lot of laws that involve the Internet. I won't comment on this one, as I haven't looked into it at all, but your perception that this is something new is way off the mark.
what part of the highlighted sticking points did you miss??:
More regulation of the internet will not improve anything. "FTC could take actions" is a slippery slope to full blown laws and regulations online. Want to start a website or blog? Pay the license fee and register with the FTC. Want to post content on internet message boards? please provide C-D with your Social security # and legal name address phone. No thank you, everyone with some net-sense sees where it's headed. Everything the gov't touches gets ruined, censored, more expensive, more layers of paperwork to comply with the new regulations. All in the name of "internet bill of rights", my ass. They love to take away any type of freedom of speech.
I agree with you! your right, do we really need more regulation of the internet. Or is this another way to gain more Control!
People who use the phrase 'sheeple' are, in my experience, some of the worse 'followers' around.
Did you have anything of substance to add to the topic?
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Originally Posted by Pequaman
New report calls for online privacy bill of rights - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-report-calls-for-online-apf-4060122555.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&cc ode= - broken link)
tell them to keep their stinkin paws away from the net. Before you know it, you will need a license just to go on the net and comply with 15 different regulations to run a blog or website.
I said right here on cd that this was coming about 6 months ago when teh federal government started moving the internet under the same regulations as television.. Somewhere down the road, porn will be next.. Unregulated home porn that can be accessed by 10 year olds will be their excuse.. And if you dont agree that porn should be limited, then you support raping little children.. Watch, that'll be their argument..
It needs regulation. Somebody's got to do it. That said, don't know if Gov is the right body, but I am all for increased regulation of the internet. What is the alternative to not regulating? Obviously, the feds and whoever else are out on countless sites monitoring for offenders of various types. The internet is a ripe place for criminal activity. I don't understand why people would be upset that it is increasingly monitored. If you're not into shady shi*, why worry?
I doubt it will come to a point where Americans need to comply with 15 regulations just to run a blog or website, but could it come to a point where people are actually held accountable for their actions- including spreading hate, threats or vile material online? Perhaps. One can always look to countries with even stricter censorship policies to realize that Americans have it very 'loosey goosey" when it comes to internet freedom. If you're doing weird shi#, someone might be watching you, for sure, but no one is clamping down on your so called "freedom to speak." It could be worse.
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