Comments on: Senator predicts 'overdue' changes to privacy

Democratic senator whose personal info was lost by Bank of America indicates time is right for reshaping privacy laws.

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Jumping to action...

Its amazing that this has been going on for years to the "average joe" and not one government member blinked and eye. All of the sudden BOFA loses some senators data, and here we go, gotta get legislation out the door immediatley. Before, when anyone brought up the idea of forcing companies to put safeguards into place to protect customers private data, it was shot down because it would put "undo burden" onto big corpoations (ie, it might cost them some money) now watch, its not gonna matter how much it costs the companies, it gonna have to be done. of course, big corps will be able to get govt subsidies (ie taxpayer dollars) so it wont cut into their precious profits. and the best part is it will be played out to consumers like they are doing us a great favor.

typical

That's typical of any gov't organization (congress, senate, etc). They claim to be working for the people, but they don't care about it until it affects THEM personally... or their campaign funding.

There's a difference between Politicians and Statesmen...

Statesmen serve to better the country and help the people.
Politicians server to better themselves and help their friends.

I think we need to elect more of the former, and less of the latter.

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Leakin' Leahy - a savior?

The most disturbing thing in the article and other business links where I have seen this 'announcement' - is that these are written to paint Sen. Patrick Leahy as a 'rescuer'. The last thing 'leaking Leahy' has on his mind is our well being and absolutely secure data. Noting these all say the same thing in little variance - the supposed balanced articles print partisan press releases, basically reducing the business writers to moronic sock puppets.