Marc Rotenberg
Marc Rotenberg
Marc Rotenberg is President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an independent, public interest research center in Washington, DC. He teaches Information Privacy Law and Open Government Law at Georgetown University Law Center, studies emerging privacy and civil liberties issues, testifies before Congress, and speaks at judicial conferences. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." Marc is a guest on Bloomberg TV, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, FoxNews, and National Public Radio,...
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They're particularly effective and ... there are particular privacy issues.
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The United States today experiences much higher levels of identity theft, spam and government profiling than Europe because we have failed to establish necessary legal safeguards.
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This can be more like Big Brother than legitimate tax collection. There has to be oversight.
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Once you enable third-party access to Internet-based communication, you create a vulnerability that didn't previously exist. It will put at risk the stability and security of the Internet.
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Normally, your license plate number only becomes relevant when you're involved in an accident, pulled over by police or when your car is stolen. This technology changes that. ... It's a new form of surveillance.
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Jason is one of the leaders in the privacy communities. He's tremendously effective. He gets things done.
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Key escrow would not have prevented what took place. And the rush to establish Draconian security controls may do very little to provide greater safety for Americans. They would, however, provide a great cost in terms of freedom.
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Key escrow would not have prevented what took place, ... And the rush to establish Draconian security controls may do very little to provide greater safety for Americans. They would, however, provide a great cost in terms of freedom.
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Because Amazon announced that it could no longer guarantee that it would not disclose customer information to third parties, and in the absence of legal or technical means to assure privacy for Amazon customers, we have decided that we can no longer continue our relationship with Amazon.
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The Federal Trade Commission has a statutory obligation to safeguard the interests of consumers in the online marketplace. This case is a test of the FTC's ability to act in the public interest.
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This is a very important development in terms of online privacy.
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On balance, we think that consumers are more at risk today than they were in 1997 when we first examined privacy practices on the Web,
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I don't think cookies should be out there at all, ... but the good news here is that consumers are at least becoming more sophisticated about the appropriate use of cookies.
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The FCC simply does not have the statutory authority to extend the 1994 law for the telephone system to the twenty-first century Internet.