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NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet |
May 16, 2013
E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems would be awful for the Internet.Topping NetChoice's latest iAWFUL (Internet Advocates' Watchlist for Ugly Laws) list are a number of California proposals aimed at protecting privacy that would create regulations for Internet companies. In some cases, the proposals are contradictory: One bill in California would limit website and mobile app privacy policies to 100 words, and a second would require more disclosure in privacy policies.Another California bill would require advertisers on mobile apps to include privacy policies and to obtain consumer consent before displaying ads in some circumstances."States are seen as laboratories of democracy, but [California] is building us a Frankenstein of Internet laws right now," said Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, with members including Facebook, Yahoo and eBay.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2038902/netchoice-california-privacy-bills-are-bad-for-internet.html#tk.rss_all
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