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FTCprivacy
Anon
2015-Apr-3 3:18 pm
Thought FTC had authority over privacy issuesI thought the FTC had authority over privacy issues. » www.ftc.gov/news-events/ ··· -privacyThe FTC has been the chief federal agency on privacy policy and enforcement since the1970s, when it began enforcing one of the first federal privacy laws the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Since then, rapid changes in technology have raised new privacy challenges, but the FTCs overall approach has been consistent: The agency uses law enforcement, policy initiatives, and consumer and business education to protect consumers personal information and ensure that they have the confidence to take advantage of the many benefits of the ever-changing marketplace. Would it be too much to ask that Federal agencies hash out who has authority to regulate privacy and keep it in one agency? | |
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Re: Thought FTC had authority over privacy issuesThe FCC claimed authority over broadband user privacy issues when they reclassified ISPs. I assume part of the discussions are to focus on hashing out authority overlap, as some at the FTC aren't happy about it: » www.nationaljournal.com/ ··· 20150309 | |
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FTCprivacy
Anon
2015-Apr-3 3:43 pm
Re: Thought FTC had authority over privacy issuessaid by Karl Bode:The FCC claimed authority over broadband user privacy issues when they reclassified ISPs.
I assume part of the discussions are to focus on hashing out authority overlap, as some at the FTC aren't happy about it:
»www.nationaljournal.com/ ··· 20150309 After reading that link you provided, this looks like one more issue that is being tossed to Congress to resolve after the FCC declared power over broadband using Title II. It looks like the FTC will encourage Congress to clip the FCCs wings. | |
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tshirt
Premium Member
2015-Apr-3 4:05 pm
Re: Thought FTC had authority over privacy issuesToo much infighting/overlap of the regulatory agencies is rendering them worthless, and the throw it back to congress which created them because congress is so poorly equipped to handle day to day (or year to year) management. | |
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And in the end we will get less privacy because the lobbyists will claim economic harm if they have to respect privacy. | |
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Re: Thought FTC had authority over privacy issuesand not only that but wont have a set of standard rules that the ISP will have to follow :\ | |
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dontrackme
Anon
2015-Apr-3 3:43 pm
Google is the worst offenderGoogle has tracking on almost EVERY user experience on the Internet regardless of a Google site or not. Guess there are no concerns there eh? Oh yeah... Facebook is not far behind them. | |
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anon
Anon
2015-Apr-3 4:20 pm
Re: Google is the worst offenderGoogle worst offender?
Oh, so is that why Facebook is under Privacy Watch for the next 20 years for violations of user privacy while Google isn't? | |
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Re: Google is the worst offenderGoogle, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, heck I think the only one that hasnt so far is reddit | |
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Re: Google is the worst offenderThe FCC looks to be talking about ISP pipes, not services. ATT and VZ are ad tracking at the raw pipe layer. Google Fiber doesn't ad track at the raw pipe layer, it's done at the services layer - Gmail, Chrome, etc and GF TV is a service, but they do allow opt out. It needs to be opt in for pay services like TV. | |
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said by dontrackme :Google has tracking on almost EVERY user experience on the Internet regardless of a Google site or not. Guess there are no concerns there eh? Oh yeah... Facebook is not far behind them. Facebook Social Plugins Widgets, Social Google Analytics Analytics, Analytics Google+ Platform Widgets, Social Reddit Widgets, Social Twitter Button Widgets, Social True, but blame the sites that allow it not google. The above is what is found on this page. Your information is being handed over to those. | |
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Re: Google is the worst offenderAnd there is a browser extension (for most browsers) called Ghostery that allows to you block out all trackers including Google's, with detailed control. | |
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Anon
2015-Apr-4 11:20 am
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said by smk11:True, but blame the sites that allow it not google. The above is what is found on this page. Your information is being handed over to those. Nice of you to apologize for Google, but they have actually monopolized the market on all Internet advertising / analytics. Few run sites these days without giving Google/Doubleclick user information. | |
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Kearnstd
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2015-Apr-4 1:40 pm
Re: Google is the worst offenderWhich means its still the fault of other sites, Google is not a monopoly they earned their place in being this big. After all 15yrs ago everybody thought the player in this position was going to be Yahoo. | |
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Use Firefox with the NoScript extention and you will see how many sites use google-analytics . com or other google javascripts. Including this site. I also use BetterPrivacy to get rid of the Flash LSO Local Shared Objects super cookies every time I shut down Firefox. They may track me for the session but I am new every time I reload Firefox. On Firefox you can use the Privacy Window for more privacy. | |
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