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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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.
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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're not big fans for the posting of privacy policies because what is much more important is privacy practice.
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They're particularly effective and ... there are particular privacy issues.
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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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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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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 changing structure and nature of the workplace has led to more invasive and often covert monitoring practices that call into question employees' most basic rights to privacy and dignity.
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The collection of this data by automated means creates new privacy risks.
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Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.
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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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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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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 need to be on guard here a bit, ensuring that when technology is used, it's effective and respects constitutional principles.