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Congressional hearings seem to almost always be a farce. How can you hold hearings on a new law and not involve the public? Isn't that what's supposed to happen

by mtgx 8y ago

Congressional hearings seem to almost always be a farce. How can you hold hearings on a new law and not involve the public? Isn't that what's supposed to happen in a democratic country? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/game-rigged-congress-invites-no-consumer-privacy-advocates-its-consumer-privacy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/game-rigged-congress-i... > In a surveillance economy where companies track, analyze and capitalize on our clicks, the issue at hand isn’t privacy. The problem is unfettered data exploitation and its potential deleterious consequences — among them, unequal consumer treatment, financial fraud, identity theft, manipulative marketing and discrimination. This is why the EU generally refers to privacy as "data protection." I think it would be good for the U.S. to adopt this mindset, too, because too often major data breaches are so damaging because the companies were careless with how much data they stored on users and how they protected it. Storing personal user data for moderate to long periods of time should almost always be seen as a liability for companies. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_toxic.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...

salawat 8y ago
The controversy around privacy revolves around whether or not business you conduct with someone else should be considered YOURS. Companies don't want to maintain data that they don't have the capacity to unilaterally monetize, so they will fight tooth and nail to make sure the and rhetoric revolves around their right to collect data rather than the consumer's right to have the privacy of their transacted business maintained. Privacy is a very heavy word in American political rhetoric, because something becoming reasonably considered private suddenly obligated businesses to enact rather expensive data management regimes, and opens the door to a voter's nest of legal liability, and regulatory oversight. See HIPAA for a good example. You have to provide consent for information sharing, and the organization is responsible for maintaining an audit trail. There are also stiff penalties attached for failure to keep the information secure and protected. Needless to say, the advertising industry would likely implode overnight if something of the sort were to be enacted. Sites would have to eitherturn to alternative revenue generating models, or attempt to hold their user's ransom for consent to share with whom they wish.

by mtgx 8y ago

salawat 8y ago

The controversy around privacy revolves around whether or not business you conduct with someone else should be considered YOURS. Companies don't want to maintain data that they don't have the capacity to unilaterally monetize, so they will fight tooth and nail to make sure the and rhetoric revolves around their right to collect data rather than the consumer's right to have the privacy of their transacted business maintained. Privacy is a very heavy word in American political rhetoric, because something becoming reasonably considered private suddenly obligated businesses to enact rather expensive data management regimes, and opens the door to a voter's nest of legal liability, and regulatory oversight. See HIPAA for a good example. You have to provide consent for information sharing, and the organization is responsible for maintaining an audit trail. There are also stiff penalties attached for failure to keep the information secure and protected. Needless to say, the advertising industry would likely implode overnight if something of the sort were to be enacted. Sites would have to eitherturn to alternative revenue generating models, or attempt to hold their user's ransom for consent to share with whom they wish.