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Notice it's all about "consumers" and "companies," not "citizens" and "government." I'd hardly call this a bill of rights. It's more like a campaign advertisem
by davidcuddeback 15y ago
Notice it's all about "consumers" and "companies," not "citizens" and "government." I'd hardly call this a bill of rights. It's more like a campaign advertisement for Obama. If I wanted to be more of a conspiracy theorist about it, I might believe that if this were passed into law, it would be to force companies to maintain readily exportable data about their users, which is only a court order away from being exported to government officials.
- pyre 15y ago> only a court order away from being exported to government This would actually be an improvement over the current state of affairs where companies are under no legal obligation to force the government to get a court order in many cases.
- rabidsnail 15y agoFortunately the government can only take data you have. They can't force you to have data (yet). This is not the state of affairs in the telephone network, where every phone company is mandated to have government backdoors installed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...). That law was passed under Clinton, by the way.
- davidcuddeback 15y agoThat's a fair point. The main point I was trying to make though is that this "bill of rights" will ensure that companies have already gathered that information into a readily exportable format, thus reducing the friction when the government comes knocking, whatever form that might take.