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Article #621645Re: It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you (CNN)
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:28
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:28
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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: > full article at: > https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/opinions/data-company-spying-opinion-schneier/index.html We were brought in to help wordsmith cal. state legislation when they were working on "electronic signature", "data breach notification", and "opt-in personal information sharing". "Electronic signature" and "data breach notification" passed, but before "opt-in" passed, a (federal pre-emption state laws) "opt-out" was added to GLBA. "Opt-in" required institutions to have record of person agreeing to sharing information, "Opt-out" allowed sharing unless institution had record of person objecting to sharing information. At national annual privacy conference last decade with panel discussion with all the FTC commissioners and somebody asked them if they were going to do anything about "opt-out" personal information sharing. He said he worked for call center technology company used by most financial institutions and knew that their "opt-out" operations never made a record of people objecting to sharing their personal information. The FTC commissioners just ignored the question -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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