Privacy Experts' Wish List
"Businesses, government agencies, private investigators and, frankly, anybody with a few dollars and a devious mind can get their hands on some of your most sensitive personal information.
Not that there aren't any laws regulating the collection and use of personal data.
But privacy advocates argue that these laws are so full of holes that those who buy and sell Americans' personal information can work around them without penalty.
In testimony before lawmakers, those advocates have called for Congress and businesses to better secure electronic personal data and restrict its use. And they've urged greater transparency among commercial data brokers that trade in personal data.
Two of those advocates – Daniel Solove, assistant professor of law at George Washington University Law School, and Chris Hoofnagle, the West Coast director of the Electronic Privacy Center – have come up with a proposal for privacy protection that they hope policymakers will consider in creating new regulations.
Here are some of their suggestions."
Not that there aren't any laws regulating the collection and use of personal data.
But privacy advocates argue that these laws are so full of holes that those who buy and sell Americans' personal information can work around them without penalty.
In testimony before lawmakers, those advocates have called for Congress and businesses to better secure electronic personal data and restrict its use. And they've urged greater transparency among commercial data brokers that trade in personal data.
Two of those advocates – Daniel Solove, assistant professor of law at George Washington University Law School, and Chris Hoofnagle, the West Coast director of the Electronic Privacy Center – have come up with a proposal for privacy protection that they hope policymakers will consider in creating new regulations.
Here are some of their suggestions."
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