Having it Both Ways? White House Now Pushing Privacy Bill of Rights
- Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:13pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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Earlier today, The Blaze highlighted a Daily Caller story which reported that the Feds are ordering school principals to monitor the Facebook activities of their students after-hours in order to, essentially, guard against online bullying and harassment. In light of that, we offer you another report which stands in contrast to the first story: the White House is pushing Congress to pass a “privacy bill of rights.”
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The Obama administration plans to ask Congress Wednesday to pass a “privacy bill of rights” to protect Americans from intrusive data gathering, amid growing concern about the tracking and targeting of Internet users.
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This person said the administration will back a law that follows the outlines of a report issued by the Commerce Department in December. The administration wants any new rules to be enforceable and will look to expand the Federal Trade Commission’s authority, this person said.
If legislation is drafted based off of the December report, then that legislation will require companies to ask consumers for permission “to use personal data for a purpose other than for which it was collected.”
Right now, many companies do not do that. Specifically, popular websites install information tracking technologies on an individual’s computer, ”feeding an industry that gathers and sells information on their finances, political leanings and religious interests, among other things,” the Journal reports.
For a sense of how exposed internet users are as a result of those information tracking technologies, read this Journal report from last week. Here’s a teaser:
Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people’s TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in some cases, prescription-drug records obtained from insurers—and using it to help advertisers buy ads targeted to shows watched by certain kinds of people.
So how does this “privacy bill of rights” square away with the Daily Caller’s report about principals snooping on their students? It seems like the feds want it both ways: you can violate someone’s privacy in the name of sensitivity, but you cannot violate someone’s privacy in the name of commerce.
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Comments (76)
Liberalsarealiens
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:35pmBig Brother is alive and well! We MUST remove these socialist next year!
Also, The Obama adminisration has stopped paying some VA benitits to private schools but will pay for the same education for public universities. Look it up! The Yellow Ribbon portion of the Post 9-11 GI Bill. Crying shame these socialist are slowly taking over this country and doing it quietly so no one will see it! 2012 is the year this country returns to it’s glory!
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:31pmIsn’t that what Dictators do?
Somehow, Obama didn’t have to learn any of this.
Report Post »He began his Reign of Control on Day 1, Inauguration Day;
but, actually well before, when one considers the “media.”
SC Now
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:17pmDon’t monitor or pass a “biil of rights.” Leave us alone!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »inexiletill2012
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:06pmFed guidelines:
Report Post »Must report : Tea Party Activity
dadsrootbeer
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:59pmSay one thing do another is the mantra of this Chicago style adminstration
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:55pmIt never ceases to amaze me what Obama and his crew can come up with to exercise more control over EVERYTHING. Just trying to control the kids so they grow up into good little commies.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:53pmBelieve NOTHING coming out of this White House.
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:09pmBelieve NOTHING until you see the proof.
“I think everything is a trap; that’s why Im still alive”
Report Post »-Prince Humperdink
chrish
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:39pmThe corrupt administration , has stopped listening to the American people along time ago. The last thing that Obama did I think was play some golf last weekend. He doesn`t care about the American people. Just remember They the socialists, George Soros etc….. have awaked a sleeping giant us the American people.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:11pmCorrupt administration? how about a corrupt government? beware – communism is coming.
Report Post »REVENANT
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:36pmThis isn’t about privacy at all. This is ab out choking commerce. Commerce depends on connecting with potential customers. This will severely inhibit that. When it comes to the Feds snooping on us, Obama’s powers are becoming limitless.
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:36pmDear Beware of Romans,
1. What does your post have to do with the story ‘White House Now Pushing Privacy Bill of Rights’ ?
2. Your post isn’t funny, pithy, or even making an attempt to be entertaining
3. Are you insane?
4. The Roman Catholics killed JFK?
5. Are you insane?
(sorry, I thought it important to ask that question twice!)
Can’t you find a nice Union Blog to crap upon?
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:33pmYou are probably right, Hawt. I generally only post to trolls. *sighs* Should fix that.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:32pmPrivacy on who’s say so? What a line of bull these maggots are stinging us. Don’t fall for their hitlerian form of entrapment, and accept their words as gospel for they are neither, and they are working against your interests not for them.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:32pmSo, the hard working school administrators are supposed to monitor after school activities of students enrolled in their schools. Did the government slip through a new law declaring that everyone under the age of 18 is an orphan and is to be considered a ward of the state?
Report Post »tuppenceworth
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:29pmAnyone considering how school administration members will be compensated for the extra time involved here? If I am not mistaken, there seems to be a variety of budget issues facing every community these days, largely due to highly paid educational providers. Now we will have them “baby-sit” too? How will that effect their contracts and compensation? Is that the intention? To convince us that since they are the ones “PRIMARILY” watching over our kids they are entitled to more say and more $$$. Scary.
Report Post »mike1029
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:15pmOh, administrators can handle this easily: “Teachers, you are responsible for monitoring your students’ Facebook pages.”
Report Post »There! All handled.
jordy2010
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:32pmmoron…..
Report Post »9thCommandment
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:32pmWell he did say it would be easier to be Prez of China. I don’t know how much more BHO can pull before even the useful idiots start to wake up….before it is too late.
Report Post »Redneckpatriot1776
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:31pmGreat, now we can give more power to the FCC and the FTC to “Protect” us some more… The Federal Nanny McPhee!
Report Post »WTH is up with our government
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:29pmHey, the good news is…the unemployment rate will go down because of all the gov hiring…pretty soon we will all be snitching…I mean reporting, to Barry.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:26pmThe government thinks it can define the limits of your privacy through legislation.
Not gonna fly with the general public.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:26pmMost people sign away their rights to privacy when they check that little box “terms and conditions”. If you don’t, you can’t use our service. This bill is just for looks….watch what the other hand is doing!!!
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:25pmCongrats on your first…….But why did it have to be
a C & P job not article related?
912828Buckeye
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:22pmThis administration has truly lost it’s mind.
Report Post »SICKANTIRED
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:21pmThey Just keep Taking I Say whe should give something back :-)
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:20pmIt is a shame that thread jacking isn’t against the law.
Warning, don’t feed the trolls.. and the troll is strong with this one.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:18pmSounds like typical liberal double talk to me, speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:25pmInteresting that it‘s okay to have an abortion and one’s privacy is protected, but writing something on one’s Facebook page is not. Oddly enough, abusive cases are usually brought forward and become viral in this day and age. Can we all say Jennifer Petkov, who ended up losing custody of her kids over the Facebook harassment of a dying child. I think that if someone is being bullied, they need to report it to the site monitors and it should be handled internally. But I don’t think that the government should be dictating when, where and how one uses Facebook or any other Internet site. That’s a parenting issue, not a governmental issue.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:45pmya know only two things i dislike about liberals…………………THEIR FACE
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:57pmThere’s nothing private about Facebook. You post your life and thoughts there for the whole world to see. Its not supposed to be private; its a webpage.
Report Post »Beware of Romans
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:15pm“Control the youth…control the world”
Adolph Hitler 1939
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:36pmPrivacy will only apply if you have a D after your name, or belong to the correct party. Otherwise, no soup for you.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:44pmUnheard of…. 2 Firsts on the same story!
Report Post »A new first……Pun intended.
Mannax
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:56pmTwo firsts. At least the second first was not a trollish as the first first,
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:05pmWe don’t need another “Privacy Bill of Rights”. Our Constitution already prohibits government from unreasonable searches and seizures. This is just a way to subvert the Constitution’s restrictions upon government.
Bill of Rights, Fourth Amendment
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:07pmOh yes lets all vote to give the government more power. However what happens when the government is controlled by the republicans? Will all this new power be taken away?
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:20pmSeeing as how Google has government contracts with the intellegence community, I can see them being the first to get a waiver from the new FCC regulations.
The FCC is loving this – more oversight of anything they can construe as “data gathering”. Any site that keeps track of the visitors to it’s site would be subject to FCC review.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:45pmGovernment schizophrenia at its best.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 2:29pmIf Obama is for it, I am against it. We are opposites.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 2:46pmHey DOC.
Report Post »You’re 100% correct and this legislations demanding GOVERNMENT WORKERS spy on private citizens is just one more reason to abolish the DOE and remove the federal government from the educational or indoctrination of America’s youth. Education should be a state,local or private school issue.
godlovinmom
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 2:55pmHow about abolishing the NEA…they don’t want to teach our children…they want to indoctrinate them..yet another reason I homeschool….that way my child is being educated at a local level (mine)and not by the new nazi’s …
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 3:28pmI am a teacher at high school…would never do this…
Report Post »Now if you want to talk about me building a cell phone jammer that blankets the entire campus or at least my room…then I am all for it….but the government says that is illegal….
so me jamming the signals so that i can teach without their fingers moving on keys….since administration doesn’t do much of anything if you turn the student in for using the phone in class…is illegal…
but the government monitoring what they do in school and at home for harmful talking about another student is okay….
gotcha….
where am I living…this isn’t America…it isn’t even Europe…this is Russia under Stalin or Germany under HItler or China under Mao…what is next…taking the offenders off to re-education camps….
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 3:46pm@Beware of Romans
Exactly.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 3:47pmLabor do you really expect Obama a supposed constitutional scholor to follow the constitution? Would computer security come under effects? It is just another way of getting control of the internet one pieces at a time.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 4:29pmThis “Education” Official is a Gay Rights Activist and has been called out by Glenn in the past as pushing a Gay agenda in schools. This Official even thinks that Gay rights groups should have access to teach Gay sensitivity to students so they don’t “Bully” Homosexual Teens…
I also believe that he was confronted about an incident with a teenager in a school that he was at. So this should really be looked at by the Agencies in charge of oversight.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 4:46pm@VRW Conspirator
Yes. And your new charismatic leader with all the answers is President Obama.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:59pmYou guys are the most gullible group I’ve ever seen. The Daily Caller posts a story that says the “Feds have ordered school principles to monitor Facebook.” The article is completely unsourced – it doesn’t even pretend to have a source. It just makes that statement as fact. And you believe it. Pretty pathetic.
Why don‘t you call the principal and your kid’s school and asked if he or she has been ordered to monitor Facebook? You won’t because you know what would happen: they would laugh at the idea. The entire concept is utterly absurd.
The school system has utterly failed with are people in the United States who have zero ability to think critically enough to believe any article on the web that agrees with their prejudices.
Maybe we’ll get better teachers if we pay them less.
firstlast
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:02pmAgreed JZS; this is coming from a group who believes nuclear radiation is perfectly harmless.
Report Post »butler180
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:29amIs this legal?
Report Post »SweetDoug
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:00am“to use personal data for a purpose other than for which it was collected.”
The problem is, is that if you don’t give them that right, you don’t get the priviledge of doing business with them, so they really aren’t asking. This is the word-weaseling that has taken over our culture. It sounds like they are asking, but they are telling. Make no mistake. And when this is a business that provides a necessity? What then?
Report Post »SonOfaCommunist
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:43pmThe good news is that in the end, all of this will back fire on them! It always does! It just might take a while.
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