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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Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.
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There's a growing sense that the online ad industry is out of control from a privacy perspective and that some rules need to be put in place.
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We need to be on guard here a bit, ensuring that when technology is used, it's effective and respects constitutional principles.
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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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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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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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One of the seemingly unsolvable problems is what do you do when someone is wrongly put on this watch list. If there are that many people on the list, a lot of them probably shouldn't be there. But how are they ever going to get off?
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We're not big fans for the posting of privacy policies because what is much more important is privacy practice.
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I think in broad terms that is still a form of spying. Some people say, ?Well, it's justified.' I'm not so clear that should be the case. Particularly if the reason you are passing legislation is to cover that activity.
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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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We know from many other examples that there are lots of security breaches that occur across the country. There's no reason to think this will be any different.
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In terms of how information is collected and used on the Internet, ... to allow detailed secret profiles to be created is disastrous.