New Czar Alert? WH Looks to Tackle Internet Privacy
- Posted on November 12, 2010 at 7:03pm by
Meredith Jessup
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration is planning to take steps in the coming weeks to step up efforts to police internet privacy, including new laws and possibly a new executive branch “czar”-type position to oversee the effort.
The specific policy strategy is expected to be unveiled in an upcoming report from the Commerce Department, but the White House is already taking some steps to implement the new policy, despite past administrations steering clear from new regulation out of concern it might stifle innovation. On Capitol Hill, the effort seems to be getting some Republican support:
Privacy issues are bubbling up on Capitol Hill. Rep. Joe Barton (R., Texas), co-chairman of the Congressional Privacy Caucus and ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said he welcomed the administration’s privacy initiative.
“Better late than never,” Mr. Barton said. “I am glad more and more folks, in the government and otherwise, are beginning to realize that there is a war against privacy.”
Yet the administration faces significant obstacles to enacting its privacy agenda. While the Republicans who now control the House of Representatives generally support privacy, they are unlikely to support any bill to expand the enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission, GOP congressional aides say. Privacy advocates will be reluctant to back legislation that lacks enforcement and is perceived as toothless.
Currently, there is no comprehensive internet privacy law in the United States and cases involving privacy disputes are most often handled by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Comments (98)
Glenn is my hero
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:41pmHey Obammy, how about you monitor my computer? I‘ll set up a webcam and I’ll moon yah!
Report Post »picochico
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:41pmThe internet is the biggest threat to progressivism and the Obama admin knows it. Preserving the freedom of the internet will be a relentless fight against progressives. They will not stop until they have a strangle hold on it. Buckle up people!
Report Post »Doc_Slammin
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 2:15amThe problem is NOT exactly what you think it is…
This has been going on all over the world under different guises. Both the movie and music industry have collaborated in this privacy farce under the pretense of ‘internet piracy’. It was just a matter of time before the United States would just right in.
Report Post »Dune
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:34pmHow about the President practicing what he preaches, This is irritating…This does NOTHING for the Economy
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:34pmCzars of any sort, even ones appointed by Republicans, are counter to the Constitution. They need to be outlawed and shipped out.
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Doc_Slammin
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 1:43amNice blog. I enjoyed your patriotism.
Report Post »JustMel71
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:30pmEven more government intrusion. Gee, I can’t wait.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:27pmYou might privacy from everyone else but not the government. That is why the feds want all those decription codes for phones.
Report Post »tess q
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:26pmhe should of done this the first day in office. it is too late now. one way or another we will stay informed! anyone know how to ride a horse? HAHA!!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:19pmI’ll ride.
Report Post »JDanielCross
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:22pmThey should stick to steroids in Major League Baseball.
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:16pmSocialists + “Police Internet Privacy” = “We‘ll monitor everything you do to make sure it’s private.”
Report Post »Aaron
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:15pmcrossed my mind—completely frightening!!!
Report Post »patriotteapress
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:06pmI bet our President, Mr. O’bummer would like to place Google or someone from Google in charge of this department. Ya don’t think that all this Google stuff in the news is related to this do ya? Naw, there’s no collusion or conspiring going on here. Just another way for our Government to put together a perceived enemies list. Remember, they tried getting your friends to send them your e-mail address, so they could set you straight. Now they will have to know who you are so they can “protect you.” Hint Hint Wink Wink!
FSUDAVE
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:06pmBarton thinks this is a good idea? Yeah 1500 pages of legislation should about do it. This is the same baron that liked the light bulb idea. Somebodyelse should challenge for that position.
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:04pmAnother czar? NO!…Make that HELL NO!Goverment doing anything to or on the internet.HELL NO!
Report Post »With the exception of one thing.Put the bill’s online so WE THE PEOPLE can read them before you vote on them.Like you said you would,but have lied so far and not done.
EP46
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:55amAgree 100% . But do not believe “Protect Privacy” It is to take away Freedoms…you can look at the southern border and see how the government ‘protects’ us……This is all about total control of information.
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:01pmKnowing this administration they will put someone from Google in charge of net privacy. Another Czar, we are starting to look a lot like Russia.
Report Post »Promotefreedom
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 10:50amFor their agenda to roll on, the Internet MUST be controlled by the government. Enabling government to actually access all the files on your personal computer and cell phone, will enable the government to place “offenders” on THEIR LIST of subversives (hundreds of thousands are already on it.)
Just the threat of saying ANYTHING anti-government will stifle free speech, because Big Brother WILL be watching.
There is another prong to this government attack on the Internet. They are currently putting laws in place that “encourage” ISPs to provide their own PROPRIETARY Internet access. They are pushing the ISPs to advertise this Internet access as “faster and high end” and at the same time tell us we will still be able to use the “older” Internet access, so nobody loses anything.
The plan is, of course, to NUDGE all of us “Homers” onto these plans which will REQUIRE proprietary access codes, browsers and hardware; THEN simply no longer provide access to uncensored Internet. BTW: Google is in on this.
Welcome to the United Socialists of America Government Internet.
Report Post »charles48
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:52pmi think we should go to DC and knock the place down if enough people showed up at the capitol and confronted enough of these people (peacefully of course) i think things would really change quite quickly
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 3:12pmcareful with your comments or there will be a van parked down the street from you house.
Report Post »Oath2Honor
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:47pmYes, SilentWatcher has a point. The Obama administration has just purchased a whole fleet of those vehicles this year (with our own Tax Dollars, might I add).
Report Post »Joshua7
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:39pmI would be very interested in hearing from the american, who is not employed by government, and has come to the conclusion that the internet needs anything from the government. But the thing is, I don’t think that person exists.
Report Post »Doc_Slammin
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:55pmUh… there are lots of people who understand that internet laws, in particular this privacy law, is anything but what it claims.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:39pmInterstellar clouds like the Orion Nebula are found throughout galaxies such as the Milky Way. They begin as gravitationally bound blobs of cold, neutral hydrogen, intermixed with traces of other elements. The cloud can contain hundreds of thousands of solar masses and extend for hundreds of light years. The tiny force of gravity that could compel the cloud to collapse is counter-balanced by the very faint pressure of the gas in the cloud.
Whether due to collisions with a spiral arm, or through the shock wave emitted from supernovae, the atoms are precipitated into heavier molecules and the result is a molecular cloud. This presages the formation of stars within the cloud, usually thought to be within a period of 10-30 million years, as regions pass the Jeans mass and the destabilized volumes collapse into disks. The disk concentrates at the core to form a star, which may be surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. This is the current stage of evolution of the nebula, with additional stars still forming from the collapsing molecular cloud. The youngest and brightest stars we now see in the Orion Nebula are thought to be less than 300,000 years old,[30] and the brightest may be only 10,000 years in age.
Some of these collapsing stars can be particularly massive, and can emit large quantities of ionizing ultraviolet radiation. An example of this is seen with the Trapezium cluster. Over time the ultraviolet light from the massive stars at the center of the nebula will push away the surrounding gas and dust in a process called photo evaporation. This process is responsible for creating the interior cavity of the nebula, allowing the stars at the core to be viewed from Earth.[6] The largest of these stars have short life spans and will evolve to become supernovae.
Within about 100,000 years, most of the gas and dust will be ejected. The remains will form a young open cluster, a cluster of bright, young stars surrounded by wispy filaments from the former cloud. The Pleiades is a famous example of such a cluster.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:11pmUh, 13th, are you Ok? you seem to be roaming a little.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:23pmThat’s ******* awesome.
Report Post »mistercondo
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:38pmObama can not tell the truth.
Report Post »mistercondo
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:37pmWe the people need to tell Obama to knock off this crap.
Report Post »Joshua7
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:37pmI don’t like this. I think the internet is fine as it is and doesn’t need any government intervention. I would be vary interested to here from the american, who is not employed by government, and has come to the conclusion that the government needs to do anything to the internet. The thing is, I don’t think that person exists.
Report Post »HimmlersMasterPlan
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:29pmI feel quite safe with having the freedom to choose what protection I want on my computer. I bet most people stop using the internetz once the govt starts controlling what websites they can go to. Websites deemed, “Threats to security”. The only threat to free men is a big government.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:29pmControl access of information is a master stroke of controlling the people in one swift shot.
Report Post »docvet
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 1:53pmEventually, China will have more interned access than us. Even then watch what you say and what websites you go to. If you don’t know how to do that, ask those who lived under the nazis and/or the soviets. They knew how to avoid saying or doing anything that might get the attention of the government (or their friends, neighbors, relatives, fellow shoppers, doctors, nurses, cashiers, mailman or anyone else within earshot).
Two more years folks, two more years.
Report Post »Maximus
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:20pmLeave us alone!!
Report Post »starman70
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:17amPrivacy? Baloney! Censorship is more like it!
Report Post »Constitutional
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:20pmObama and Sorros come up with friendly names and labels for things and they are always the opposite of whatever they claim it to be.
Report Post »In an Obama elevator the up button sends you down. Hi is low, right is left.
Straight out of Orwell isn’t it.
CatB
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:35pmExactly … the world is upside down.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 12:09amDouble-Speak.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:59am….or WONDERLAND.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:12pmObama Oppositism, if Obama is wanting privacy, quite the contrary, he wants access to everything.
Report Post »DanB
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:57pmIt is a matter of default. In order to know that privacy is being violated you have to have all the information. See, you “protect” the citizens and violate all this so-called privacy all at the same time.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:06pmSome one in the White House needs to tell the President, to knock off this crap. Or better yet, Congress needs to audit the White House, and put a limit on their descretionary spending, A huge cut in their fun money. They give you the deer in the head lights look, when you tell them no one trusts them!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:16pmAnother tactic to try and force the net neutrality garbage down our throats via another angle. Same old objective, another means of trying.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »Bluegill
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:14pmI don’t think he likes it when I tease him about his simplistics slogans. Like Michelle says CAN WE DO IT you better say yes we can.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:25pmWher are all the people who were so angry about wiretaps on poeple making phonecalls to terrorists?
Report Post »DanB
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:43pmNet neutrality = wire tapping the internet. For net neutrality you monitor the traffic passing through.
Internet privacy = access the actual computers.
For net neutrality you would only need to know what is passing between computers and other devices over the internet. Yes, it would give you access to the unencrypted data passing around (as well as a record of the encrypted stuff for potential cracking of the encryption…).
But to verify your personal data is protected they would need access to all the websites and other services on the internet, all those corporate data centers and even the laptop computer of your insurance agent(s). AND, they would need to be able to access your computer. Yep, while corporations collect data on you with their computers, some of the data collection happens on your own computer and is stored there…. So protecting your private information has the potential to grant government legal access to ALL computers.
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:05pmCut the White House budget and stop paying czars!
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:50pm@ UNTAMEABLE-KATE,
“Wher are all the people who were so angry about wiretaps on poeple making phonecalls to terrorists?”
I admit I didn’t see this as an issue when Bush was in office, because I didn’t get the sense that the Bush Administration was trying to spy on us.
But now that I see that these kinds of policies give rise to Marxist agendas such as that of the Obama Administration, I am with Glenn Beck when he says these kinds of policies shouldn’t exist even under a George Washington Administration.
Bush was wrong to do it, I admit it. Obama is wrong to do it, too.
Report Post »Doc_Slammin
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:48pm@DanB : Bravo, well said, I couldn’t have explained it better myself.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 2:06amA Doctors Labor Is Not My Right….You must not have been doing much if you didn’t see all this when Bush was trying it.. back then I WAS a Democrat and that is ALL they talked about.. and MANY on the conservative side too..Bush AND Obama have OVERSTEPPED their bounds.. taking our freedoms away.. THEY ARE NOT GOD and in this country we have LAWS to protect the CITIZENS from this sort of thing.. that is why we have a CONSTITUTION.. The people are SICK and tired of CZARS this is NOT Russia.. and the PRESIDENCY is NOT a Monarchy..
Report Post »rebel
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 3:44amFox news needs to hire Kelly Evans on. Hot, smart, and witty. Favorite part of the Glenn beck program is the WSJ update.
Report Post »oh and czar’s suck!
justice
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 4:27amwell said.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:34amWhy is it that I distrust the title of this law to actually mean the LOSS of privacy for us and the INCREASE of privacy for the government. Airport scanners also protect our privacy I suppose.
Report Post »juggernaut
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 1:55pm@ rebel totally agree kelly evans is smoking hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »southsik
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 2:29pmIf this happens its Game Over and War will ensue no doubt about it
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 3:08pmEverything this administration touches has been a failure for citizens and kudos for them. You can bet any changes made will benefit them. I’d bet it would lead to a total lack of privacy and open all the doors for the Fusion program to get more “FREE” information. (information is power) You would real surprised what they can get about you know, imagine when the door opens a little wider (watch what BOTH hands are doing, not the one up front)
Report Post »ozz
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 3:27amThis is just another attempt to usher in the “internet 2”. You know the one they have total control over so they can monitor and silence dissidents. Never heard of it? Google it. Its pretty damn scary.
Report Post »RaisingANewLeader
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 6:17amCarnivore is something I remember that made a big stink back in the day. But only to those that saw anything on it. Put in during Clinton, and who KNOWS what went in before, or since, that. It has been in place since about ‘94, but it seems to have been forgotten about. The news dropped it within a week after it went live.
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