IP: Senator Prevents Action on Online Privacy Bill

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 18:22:11 -0400
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Senator Prevents Action on Online Privacy Bill

May 17, 2002

Senator Prevents Action on Online Privacy Bill
By ADAM CLYMER

WASHINGTON, May 16 - Senator Trent Lott, the minority leader, forced
the Senate Commerce Committee to adjourn this morning as it was on
the verge of adopting an online privacy bill.

The measure would require Internet service providers, online service
providers and commercial Web sites to get customers' permission
before they could disclose important personal information. That would
include financial, medical, ethnic, religious and political
information along with Social Security data and sexual orientation.

Mr. Lott, a Mississippi Republican, had been on the losing side of a
series of votes on amendments. The most important would have deleted
the bill's provisions allowing individuals to sue over disclosure of
their personal information, and another would have imposed the same
secrecy protections on businesses that collect their information
without using the Internet.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/politics/17PRIV.html


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