The success of any privacy legislation, however, may ultimately be a matter of politics.
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Tony Blair is personally sceptical about privacy legislation, although Jack Straw, his home secretary, favours it.
R. 2471, a bill to amend yet another piece of privacy legislation, the Video Privacy Protection Act.
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Together with the Federal Trade Commission, the administration pushed Congress for online privacy legislation earlier this year.
So many details need thrashing out that Congress is not expected to pass privacy legislation until next year.
Last month, the FTC recommended that Congress pass broad new online privacy legislation.
But Hollings, a fierce critic of industry self-regulation, is outside the bipartisan mainstream, which leans toward enacting mild online privacy legislation, if any.
The central issue in writing federal privacy legislation is whether the Internet industry's efforts to police its own behavior has been effective enough.
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California financial privacy legislation was introduced in 2000 and 2001, but died as industry lobbyists, and then-Gov. Gray Davis , worked to assure its defeat.
Social-media privacy legislation has been introduced or is under way in 35 states since the start of 2013, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In this he has the support of Tony Blair, whose opposition to privacy legislation is coupled with the belief that self-regulation can be made to work.
The Europeans, who prided themselves on leading the world over privacy legislation, may now end up copying privacy rules from the other side of the Atlantic.
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The prospects for new Internet privacy legislation, an issue that has been left on the back burner so far this year, would improve only slightly with Hollings wielding the Commerce Committee gavel.
Google's legal director of law enforcement and information security, Richard Salgado, is set to testify before the US House of Representatives this morning about the need for new email privacy legislation.
As long as there is a national regime of privacy legislation, the security and integrity of the internet is assured, powerful institutions such as state and federal governments will seek and obtain taxes in full in future.
The potential for privacy legislation in Washington has driven the online-ad industry to establish its own rules, which it says are designed to alert computer users of tracking and offer them ways to limit the use of such data by advertisers.
The report notes that although there has been a growing number of cases brought against newspapers on privacy grounds, the committee does not believe a case for specific legislation or general privacy law has been made.
Update (Dec. 21): Congress gutted the email privacy protections from this legislation before passing it.
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Worse yet, privacy groups also point out that the bill would preclude any state-level legislation and would restrict privacy class-action lawsuits.
In Australia, bugging and phone tapping are regulated separately but priority is given in both sets of legislation to individual privacy.
Coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the legislation included heightened privacy protection for your email, requiring the government to get a warrant to peek at it.
There were a few demands for new legislation on press privacy after her death even though French privacy laws, the strictest in Europe, had failed to protect Diana.
"I'm hoping that all of these tech companies take the stand that their privacy policies matter, their users' privacy matters, and no legislation like CISPA should take that away, " Alexis Ohanian, former owner of Reddit (Wired's parent company Conde Nast currently owns Reddit), said in a video posted last week.
And, in the wake of the super-injunctions rows earlier this year and the award of privacy damages to the former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley by the British and European courts, legislation on defamation, libel and privacy is also in the spotlight.
The bigger risk to Facebook is that growing concern over online privacy translates into a wave of legislation around the world that makes it far harder for the company to exploit the mountains of data it is collecting.
Privacy advocates will be reluctant to back legislation that lacks enforcement and is perceived as toothless.
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Its legions of lawyers and computer experts are constantly sifting through company policies and government legislation to see how our privacy is being compromised.
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Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), said legislation is the only real way to protect personal information collected online.
Hambre said the legislation purportedly aimed at protecting citizen privacy from possible government abuse could prevent intelligence officials from discovering spies and moles in their midst.
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