{"id":242,"date":"2010-05-13T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2010-06-07T14:09:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:09:58","slug":"the-boucher-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"The Boucher Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issues of behavioral advertising<\/a> and online collection of personally identifiable information have been major issues of late. I previously blogged about behavioral advertising<\/a> and the different<\/a> ways <\/a>online advertisers can track you as you move around the internet. But behavioral advertisers aren’t the only source of concern.<\/p>\n

Large social networking sites have access to a bewildering amount of personally identifiable and potentially very private data. Sure they have privacy policies in which they claim to respect your privacy but most of the policies also state that the company can change<\/a> their<\/a> privacy<\/a> policy<\/a> at any time and the new policy immediately applies to all exiting data they have on you. The EFF recently posted a nice time lapse<\/a> of Facebook’s privacy policy changes from 2005 to 2010 and the New York times recently showed that the current Facebook privacy policy is longer than the US Constitution<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 Amongst its many clauses is the fact that other websites are automatically given access to your data when you use Facebook Connect<\/a>, developers can infinitely store your data<\/a>, and any applications your friends use have the right to access and store your data too.<\/p>\n

The Boucher Bill<\/a> is an attempt by law makers to force organizations who collect data online and off to provide informed consent to their consumers. The information law group has an excellent breakdown<\/a> of the Boucher Bill which is definitely worth a read.<\/p>\n

Some major points from the bill:<\/p>\n