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 is a very important development in terms of online privacy.
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Key escrow would not have prevented what took place, ... And the rush to establish Draconian security controls may do very little to provide greater safety for Americans. They would, however, provide a great cost in terms of freedom.
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Key escrow would not have prevented what took place. And the rush to establish Draconian security controls may do very little to provide greater safety for Americans. They would, however, provide a great cost in terms of freedom.
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It was big stuff. We were fighting to save the soul of the internet.
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The United States today experiences much higher levels of identity theft, spam and government profiling than Europe because we have failed to establish necessary legal safeguards.
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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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The collection of this data by automated means creates new privacy risks.
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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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A name is now no longer a simple identifier; it is the key to a vast, cross-referenced system of public and private databases, which lay bare the most intimate features of an individual's life,
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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.