Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights for the Digital Age

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We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Calls for A Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights for the Digital Age
Posted by Danny Weitzner on February 23, 2012 at 4:00 PM EST

Today at the White House, the Obama Administration unveiled a blueprint for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights to protect consumers online. As the President wrote in his cover letter to the report:

“Never has privacy been more important than today, in the age of the Internet, the World Wide Web and smart phones. In just the last decade, the Internet has enabled a renewal of direct political engagement by citizens around the globe and an explosion of commerce and innovation creating jobs of the future. Much of this innovation is enabled by novel uses of personal information. So, it is incumbent on us to do what we have done throughout history: apply our timeless privacy values to the new technologies and circumstances of our times.”

In a related announcement, leading Internet companies and online advertising networks in the Digital Advertising Alliance came to the White House to commit to using Do Not Track technology now available in most major web browsers to make it easier for users to control online tracking.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/02/ ... igital-age