Rockefeller, Kerry Hold Meeting to Discuss Online Privacy Bills
Senators working on hashing out differences between proposals
WASHINGTON—After a meeting Tuesday between Sens. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and John Kerry, D-Mass., it appears that the two may be one step closer to some consensus about their respective digital privacy bills.
Since May, when Rockefeller introduced the Do Not Track Online Act one month after Kerry and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights, neither bill has advanced in committee. Until a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, which Rockefeller chairs, on Wednesday, neither Rockefeller nor Kerry had given any indication of whether the two bills would be combined or if one would supersede the other.
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