McCain Wants Online Privacy.(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, June, 2000 by McMANIGAL, BARNEY
WASHINGTON -- Weighing the pros and cons of consumer profiling online, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he would pursue legislation that considers the need for stronger privacy protections at a time of unprecedented electronic-commerce growth. "What we must find is the delicate balance between benefiting consumers and invading their privacy," McCain said during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Internet profiling last week.
McCain, who serves as committee chairman, is working on larger Internet-privacy legislation that he hopes to complete later this year. The hearing on profiling follows others he has called on the privacy issue. McCain said "cookies" and other tracking devices raise serious privacy concerns when deployed by advertisers...
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