Bugzappy's Blog » personal data http://www.bugzappy.com on building internet apps Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:24:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Coming of Age Next Year: Privacy on the Net http://www.bugzappy.com/2009/08/10/coming-of-age-next-year-privacy-on-the-net/ http://www.bugzappy.com/2009/08/10/coming-of-age-next-year-privacy-on-the-net/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:02:26 +0000 bugzappy http://www.bugzappy.com/?p=277 Read on slashdot: the New York Times on August 5 ran a long interview with David Vladeck, the new head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the US Federal Trade Commission. In it, Vladeck explains that his organization is going to focus on what happens to your data that you were hoping would not when you give it to a website.

It’s clear that nobody reads or understands terms-of-use and privacy agreements; so there’s something unfair in pretending that we freely gave up our provate information when we just can’t know how it will be used.

Expected show-time is about a year from now when either a consensus has been reached with the industry, or the Bureau of Consumer Protection has had enough and goes on a crusade.

Along with the overhaul of the patent system as it applies to software and business processes, this promises to bring order to the gold rush that the collection and trading of personal data has become.

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