Rockefeller Reintroduces Do Not Track Act

Privacy heats up again in Congress

Privacy is about to heat up again in Congress. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Commerce Committee, reintroduced his Do Not Track Online Act, which will give consumers the ability to prevent online companies from tracking them on the Web and using that information for profit.

First introduced in May 2011, the bill never made it out of Rockefeller's own committee even though the powerful chairman held plenty of hearings on privacy issues.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.),

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