His reliance, however, on property-based and technological solutions to privacy issues on the Internet is as problematic as the speech filters that he rejects. The government attempts to use the personal information of citizens. While the government desires to pass laws that would allow it to access personal information processed and stored in the private sector, private sector interest groups detest the additional bureaucratic and organizational burdens likely to be imposed by such a government policy. As a result, few laws are passed which allow for private sector access to online privacy. Finally, another primary reason for unable to effectively protect online privacy is that even if the Congresses pass the most cost comprehensive online privacy law, they do not know how it could be enforced.
Technology continues to outpace the law.
Currently, there are 20,000 web sites created every week and no government agency can monitor them all. And even if you find one that you think may be violating the law, it may have its server in the Hong Kong one week and Bermuda the next, so tracking it down and acquiring jurisdiction over it would be difficult. Furthermore, the passage of a largely unenforceable law is a disingenuous act by the legislature. The consumers groups argue that the failure to adopt a comprehensive legal framework to safeguard online privacy rights could jeopardize trans-border data flows with Europe and other regions. Online privacy protection has many obstacles to hurdle before it will be an effective, constitutional, and implemental solution to the problem that faces Internet users today, and it seems that the U.S. has a long way to go.