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Americans – and people in other countries, as well – should be pushing vociferously for l-a-w-s to classify the Internet as a public utility and to place well-defined boundaries upon what "holders in due course" of information (such as owners of mail servers, chat rooms and search engines) may and may not do. The "FCC Chairman's" job should be to implement the law, not make it.
This law should also include fundamental protections for geo-location data.
We made a pretty darned good start with the HIPAA law, quoted earlier, which was designed with heavy input from privacy and information-integrity experts at the time. In today's society, these other forms of information are no less important, and no less exploitable.
The FCC is an administrative body. In this case, it is groping in the dark. It's Congress's job to establish law, and nothing less than law is needed here. Then, the FCC will be tasked to implement rules that carry it out.
We should also be pushing for international treaty conventions on the matter, as the Internet is of course of world-wide concern now. We need both national and international laws. This is not merely a matter for administrative rule-making.
The real sources of "anger," and of quite-justifiable fear, is that in the US today "we don't have laws to protect us, nor to define the legal situation that we face."
Last edited by sundialsvcs; 04-14-2017 at 07:52 AM.
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