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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The Federal Trade Commission has a statutory obligation to safeguard the interests of consumers in the online marketplace. This case is a test of the FTC's ability to act in the public interest.
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Normally, your license plate number only becomes relevant when you're involved in an accident, pulled over by police or when your car is stolen. This technology changes that. ... It's a new form of surveillance.
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Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come.
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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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There is no scenario where it makes sense for a company to take record of who we've called each month and make that data available for sale.
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There's a growing sense that the online ad industry is out of control from a privacy perspective and that some rules need to be put in place.
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Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.
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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.
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We had raised some of the antitrust issues in our complaint, but the FTC's position was that they really did not have antitrust authority in this matter, so they were focusing solely on the privacy and security questions.
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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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We're not big fans for the posting of privacy policies because what is much more important is privacy practice.