Comments on: Spyware, data privacy bills reappear in House

Congress has tried for years to enact spyware regulations and restrictions on Social Security numbers, with no luck so far.

[darmik2005]

thats

noone is protected

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[flashfast]

Couldnt Read your website

Why not try white text - your site is totally illegible with that
grey on black. Cheers.

[wbenton]

3 strikes and you're out!!!

It wasn't approved in 2004 for a reason... and apparently that same reason caused it to not be approved in 2005.

Thus this time around... without really changing anything to improve it's approval rate... they add other bills which may be of more use and tag them on with the twice turned down bill to try and get it through.

Liberals don't learn do they?

You need a bill with teeth for it to get approved. Trying to add false teeth to it 3 years later doesn't really do the job.

Walt

[MD525]

Government Accountability

It is horrible to even have the thought of people selling our social security numbers. The problem is how many groups are accidentally giving it away for free.

The story seems promising until I reached a specific line, "one to impose many additional security requirements including data breach notifications on private companies (though not federal agencies)"

How it is possible that they would make the restrictions for companies yet not include government agencies. Does this mean that state schools will not be included also, because there is a state school with data loss every week almost.

Government is a frequent perpetrator of data loss and should be held just as accountable as companies. Here is a list of government related security breaches in the past month

http://www.nbc4.com/news/10983140/detail.html
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16667910.htm
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