Hillary Clinton: Privacy Warrior

[Laugh O. Grams]

Great article in Wired about Hillary's thoughts on championing electronic privacy and updating old outdated systems. This will play huge with most voters, but especially with people in my Mom's demographic (60s-70s Republicans), who think that the world is moving too fast and feel that their privacy is being compromised on a daily basis.

The issue of digital-era privacy did not make it to the top of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's legislative to-do list at the Saturday launch of her presidential campaign. But for those who look, the New York Democrat has clearly staked out her positions on the esoteric subject, and they're sending electronic civil libertarians' hearts a twitter.

Clinton, the presidential front-runner among Democrats in way-early polling, addressed electronic privacy issues at a constitutional law conference in Washington, D.C. last June. There she unveiled a proposed "Privacy Bill of Rights" that would, among other things, give Americans the right to know what's being done with their personal information, and offer consumers an unprecedented level of control over how that data is used.

For example, Clinton said that financial companies as a rule should not be allowed to share consumers' transactional information without first obtaining their permission. Under current law, financial institutions freely share certain kinds of customer information unless consumers specifically opt-out.

source: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72549-0.html?tw=rss.index

 

[LuvDuke]

Great article in Wired about Hillary's thoughts on championing electronic privacy and updating old outdated systems. This will play huge with most voters, but especially with people in my Mom's demographic (60s-70s Republicans), who think that the world is moving too fast and feel that their privacy is being compromised on a daily basis.

It's about time.