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  Dionys1 month, 3 weeks ago

  "data-mining Web companies and Internet marketers to decide how best to protect users' privacy."

  And surely they will be the best people to decide how to protect our privacy, right?

  It's like handing your daycare center over to predatory rapist pedophiles and saying that they'll know how best to protect the children.

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    Beau78901 month, 3 weeks ago

    With even the government calling for more regulation on the lending and securities markets, no government employee should be saying, "Self-regulation may be the preferable approach for this dynamic marketplace," as did Lydia Parnes, the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

    And I really don't think anyone who's the head of anything called the Bureau of CONSUMER PROTECTION should EVER say that.

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  antibrainwasher1 month, 3 weeks ago

  Who owns the internet? Same companies that own the hard right media empires of TV news, and newspapers and movies. It will be ok, unless you criticize USrael.

  propeller/ netscape/ aol/ time warner/ hard right zionist.

  enjoy it while it lasts...

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    libsRfunny1 month, 3 weeks ago

    "Who owns the internet? Same companies that own the hard right media empires of TV news, and newspapers and movies. It will be ok, unless you criticize USrael."

    Ah yes, another racist, anti-semitic rant from the left wing.

    You obviously don't know squat about the Internet. No one "owns" it. People and various organizations own domains, sites, servers, etc. The U.S. government - specifically the military - created the Internet to share information back in the '70s.

    If anyone "owns" the Internet, it's the American taxpayer, which makes it a public entity. As a professor said many years ago: there is no such thing as privacy on the Internet. It's best to assume everything you say or do on it is being read or observed by someone else.

    There are steps people can take to ensure privacy, such as using encryption programs. I'd be surprised if there isn't software available or soon offered to prevent Internet usage from being tracked.

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      Beau78901 month, 3 weeks ago

      Encryption only scrambles files you send, but has nothing to do with preventing your Internet service provider from knowing what you do online. And Internet usage goes through your ISP. You won't be able to prevent them from tracking your usage, and if you send your encryption key through them, they can decrypt your files as well.

      And with the telecom companies being protected from punishment for invading your privacy, why shouldn't they?

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