What step the government will actually take in the area of privacy regulation is the million-dollar question.
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Last week , the EU agreed to water down proposals for a radical overhaul of data privacy regulation.
Those who think we need stricter privacy regulation in the U.S. say emulating Europe's approach would help online companies by ensuring the free flow of information internationally.
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The European Commission can dole out multibillion dollar fines to Microsoft and Intel because it centralizes antitrust regulation, but it leaves data protection and privacy regulation to EU member states.
Last July, The Legal Pulse expressed its concern over the piecemeal nature of online consumer privacy regulation in the U.S. Indicative of this disarray, we noted, was the response to Google Inc.
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British members of a parliamentary committee dealing with the media are now broadening a planned inquiry into privacy law and press regulation.
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C. though about whether federal regulation of privacy should be expanded.
Mr Bowden, former chief privacy adviser to Microsoft Europe, made a name for himself as a privacy advocate when the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) came into force in the UK in 2000.
But though Jeffords' decision changes the political landscape in Washington, existing bipartisan agreement on many technology policy issues means that there are likely to be few immediate, substantive shifts on questions such as an Internet sales tax, online privacy, intellectual property or telecommunications regulation.
Since Pano got started in 2008, it has benefited from corporate regulation that protects data security and privacy, such as HIPAA and patient privacy laws.
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His advice will likely shape how the FTC approaches its regulation of industry when it comes to their privacy practices.
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.
As the concern over privacy demonstrates, it did not require explicit, heavy-handed regulation to broaden consumer choices and realize new opportunities in the marketplace.
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However, there are solutions that allow for greater efficiency, while retaining privacy, and when coupled with progress being forced on the industry through regulation, could and should lead to a major evolution in hedge fund transparency.
He also stressed how corporate self-regulation, and media and information literacy for users, could protect privacy and freedom of expression.
But Hollings, a fierce critic of industry self-regulation, is outside the bipartisan mainstream, which leans toward enacting mild online privacy legislation, if any.
However, being against dissenting viewpoints on regulation, being unwilling to confront any form of taxation, or being anti-financial privacy does not make one a neutral bitcoin advocate as some have suggested.
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