 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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Re: VZ, AT&T, and TW... quote:
And finally, all participants -- including ad networks, search engines, Internet-service providers and others -- need to commit to those principles and agree to certification of compliance by an independent third-party. "We believe companies engaged in online behavioral advertising should agree to participate in a credible, third-party certification process to demonstrate to consumers that they are doing what they say with regard to the collection and use of information for online behavioral advertising," he said.
said by fAcEtIOUs:That these rules being considered by Congress should apply to all web sites as well as ISPs. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, BBR, etc should also have to do the same thing - make use of user interaction OPT-IN. Most web sites don't even have an OPT-OUT policy, let alone an OPT-IN one. I think that alike rules ought to apply to alike operations. For example, the rules about the www.verizon.net portal ought to be the same as for any other similar site on the net. It doesn't matter that Verizon is an ISP -- the rules for website data ought to be the same.
In so much as Verizon is also an ISP (a traffic carrier between the websites and the users), I think that the rules governing ISPs ought to match the rules for other ISPs -- but any increased scrutiny to ISPs would only apply to that traffic-carriage function. Their website wouldn't be any more regulated because they're also an ISP.
Right now, one of the big problems is that some ISPs are covered under the Communications Act, some under the Cable Act, and some conveyances aren't clearly under either. The ECPA, which was written to cover electronic communications, still is clouded in some of these cases!
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
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