Creating a fair playing field for both online and off-line businesses will
require some level of Internet taxation and the ability by online companies
to gather personal user data for advertising purposes, Sen. John F. Kerry
(D-Mass.) said today.
To help Web business survive and thrive, Kerry said he plans to push for a
national "opt-out" privacy policy for all Web-based transactions except
those involving financial data and medical information.
Kerry said he plans to reintroduce a bill he cosponsored with Sens. John
McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) that would allow Web-based
businesses to gather personal information on Internet users for advertising
purposes.
"What many Americans don't realize is that in the off-line world, they have
already lost most of their privacy," Kerry said during a breakfast meeting
of the Massachusetts Software & Internet Council Inc. Friday morning. "If
privacy is a right, and several Supreme Court cases suggest that it is to an
extent, then we have to make certain that the off-line world and the online
world are thinking about privacy in the same context."
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/05/22/kerry.taxes.idg/index.html
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So..let's see if I understand this.
Groups have been fighting hell hard for the privacy of Internet users from
intrusive and sometimes subversive tactics to get their personal
information.
Now this numbskull wants to pass a law that allows companies to do that by
default, leaving it up to the user to Opt-Out...
And he sites the spam we receive in our snail mail boxes, as a defence. "You
receive it by mail..might as well receive it in Email too.."
Without even considering the vast differences in the medium involved.
It costs next to nothing for someone to set up an email server, and fire off
a million email messages. Far far less than if that same person had to print
a catalogue etc. and then send it via UPS to your doorstep. That's why I
would wager people receive far MORe email spam than they do regular spam in
their mailboxes.
I always wonder, all these senators passing bills that affect technology..do
they actually use this technology themselves? I would strongly wager that
they do not!
To me, Advertising on the web has bottomed out because of overinflated
expectations on the part of the Advertising Companies. They require users to
CLICK on their ads, and go to their pages before they pay the site. Do they
require a user to call a number on the Television before they pay the TV
COmpany for running an AD? No!
Why not? PEople on Television see the advertisement the same way that people
on a website see it...so why the big difference?
I don't think people have a problem with sites getting aggregate data, but
its the personal data that I don't want. I don't want a site storing my
email address and linking that to where I've gone on the Internet. AMazon
proved that so called Privacy Policies can change overnight, leaving you and
your personal data (Name, Phone Number, Living Address) up the river.
Before this dimwit Senator tries to formulate some plan whereby these
companies CAN collect data, WITH the consent of people, and NOT share
personal data or sell it to anyone without first staying so on their
website....he wants to remove all blocks and allow companies free sheet to
do what they want with our information, by default.
Who voted these people into office???
Am I the only one who sees a problem with this???
-Gel
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