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Article: Congress taking slow approach on Internet privacy.(Business)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 8, 1999
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Personal information remains largely unprotected on the Internet, but Congress has been slow to pass legislation to shield consumers because the debate over privacy legislation is still raging.
"For people on line, it's sort of `fend for yourselves,' which is hard to do because a lot of information that's collected is gathered surreptitiously," said Marc Rotenberg, director of the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center, a D.C. public interest research group advocating privacy in the Internet.
Lawmakers say they don't dispute the need to protect personal information, but they are not sure how best to promote privacy.
The prevailing ...