Marc Rotenberg
Marc Rotenberg
Marc Rotenberg is President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an independent, public interest research center in Washington, DC. He teaches Information Privacy Law and Open Government Law at Georgetown University Law Center, studies emerging privacy and civil liberties issues, testifies before Congress, and speaks at judicial conferences. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." Marc is a guest on Bloomberg TV, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, FoxNews, and National Public Radio,...
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This can be more like Big Brother than legitimate tax collection. There has to be oversight.
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We know from many other examples that there are lots of security breaches that occur across the country. There's no reason to think this will be any different.
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Because Amazon announced that it could no longer guarantee that it would not disclose customer information to third parties, and in the absence of legal or technical means to assure privacy for Amazon customers, we have decided that we can no longer continue our relationship with Amazon.
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In terms of how information is collected and used on the Internet, ... to allow detailed secret profiles to be created is disastrous.
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I don't think cookies should be out there at all, ... but the good news here is that consumers are at least becoming more sophisticated about the appropriate use of cookies.
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Congress should not reauthorize the Patriot Act until these questions are resolved.
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That information will dovetail with the Real ID Act of 2005. Real ID cards are the other shoe that is scheduled to drop in three years.
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It's an extremely precise statement of what seems, 35 years later, to be the central constitutional question just now.
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This is a very important development in terms of online privacy.
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On balance, we think that consumers are more at risk today than they were in 1997 when we first examined privacy practices on the Web,
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It was big stuff. We were fighting to save the soul of the internet.
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It's sweeping, in terms of its impact, and we hope this is the start of better practices on Microsoft's part.
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They're particularly effective and ... there are particular privacy issues.
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We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.