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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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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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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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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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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Congress should not reauthorize the Patriot Act until these questions are resolved.
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That information will dovetail with the Real ID Act of 2005. Real ID cards are the other shoe that is scheduled to drop in three years.
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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 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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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.