Ad Biz Claims It Must Disregard User Privacy Choices to Safeguard "Cybersecurity

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

I found this link to an article about a Senate hearing that took place yesterday, June 28 in which it was argued that user privacy needs to be disregarded to safeguard our" cyber security". The call for the disregard of our online privacy is being headed up by an advertising company saying that it needs to track our online browsing claiming that there is a ”purported connection between online behavioral tracking for advertising industry purposes and online sexual predators or ID theft." They also asked that the Senate hearing to allow ISPs to collect data on Internet users not accused of any crime and to let company share sensitive data with the government without a warrant. Fortunately, Sen. Rockefeller was not convinced that this needed to be done, the EFF is watching this and we should be keeping an eye on it as well.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06/ad-biz-claims-it-must-disregard-user-privacy-choices-safeguard-cybersecurity