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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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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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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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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The FCC simply does not have the statutory authority to extend the 1994 law for the telephone system to the twenty-first century Internet.
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It's an extremely precise statement of what seems, 35 years later, to be the central constitutional question just now.
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There is no scenario where it makes sense for a company to take record of who we've called each month and make that data available for sale.
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We had raised some of the antitrust issues in our complaint, but the FTC's position was that they really did not have antitrust authority in this matter, so they were focusing solely on the privacy and security questions.
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We think it's very useful that people can go to the Internet and get a lot of information, but we think it's appropriate to draw the line where personal information is given at a Web site.
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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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This has a big implication for the national debate.
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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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Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come.