Online Privacy Legislation: What Do You Think?

The fact that Congress is in the throes of those lazy, hazy days of summer is not stopping its desire to delve into the issue of online privacy legislation.

According to a July 17 article in Broadcasting & Cable titled “Markey Pushes for Online-Privacy Legislation,” House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) signaled Thursday that Congress must pass comprehensive online-privacy legislation and that consumers should have to affirmatively agree before companies can collect surfing data for various purposes, including targeted advertising.

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