That is wrong. The Clinton-Gore plan gives consumers the power to stop the selling or sharing of the entries in their personal checking accounts. This is a common sense approach that can attract both consumers and the industry. It sands off the extremes at both ends of the issue. We need a catalyst to bring both sides together, and this can do it.
Privacy is one of our most vulnerable rights in the information age.
Digitalization of information offers tremendous benefits but also new threats. Some in Congress are content to punt the privacy issue down the field for another year. The public disagrees. People know that the longer we dawdle, the harder it will be to halt the erosion of privacy. A year is an eternity in the digital age.