Hearkening back to my long winded government email yesterday, I can just
comment that he can go ahead and try. Whatever he does will have no effect.
The majority of users and companies on the internet are not in the US and
could not care less.
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angél Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 8:14 AM
Subject: US to take lead in levying Internet Taxes, and removing Privacy
Restrictions.
> 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
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> --------
>
> 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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