The U.S. government has updated its guideline on how online services should treat the user (us) privacy.
Now, The Federal Trade Commission’s asks Web services to inform users up-front that their search data could be collected, then offer them an option to opt-out. ISPs and mobile service providers are also asked to give users a full path of what they are gathering and why, the FTC says:
You may have a contract with your ISP and everywhere you go, they can be collecting information on you
Privacy advocates are already increasing the efforts, announcing the guidelines are not enough to protect the consumer’s privacy. Some are asking for full-fledged laws surrounding privacy standards.
What do you think? Should the government get in to regulate the online privacy? Should web companies continue to take the control, as they do now?
June 20th, 2009 at 7:43 pm