Impact of Legislation on Internet Privacy and Data Security

The government's preferred method of dealing with the challenges posed by technology by simply passing new legislation is now spilling over into the debate over Internet privacy.. . .

The government's preferred method of dealing with the challenges posed by technology by simply passing new legislation is now spilling over into the debate over Internet privacy.

Even though legislation on this issue is not likely to be passed this year, the outcome of the ongoing conversation will have a significant impact.

A lot of attention has focused on Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings' "Online Privacy Protection Act." His bill legislates what a Web site's privacy policy should be, depending on two distinct types of information collected: "sensitive personally identifiable information" and "nonsensitive personally identifiable information."

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