Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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Learning New Tricks: Lessons from the Animal Rights Movement

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An example: Opt-In provisions

An example of how to apply these principles to privacy may be illustrative. Currently, banks in the United States can be prevented from selling personal data through an consumer initiated opt-out process consistent with the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Consumer and privacy advocates prefer an opt-in requirement where personal information cannot be sold absent specific consumer consent. Though there are some murmurs about the inevitability of opt-in federal legislation, newspapers and technology companies will be opposed to it, and, if history holds, the industry groups will carry the day. If this is the case, carefully proposed ballot initiatives could take advantage of public opinion to challenge the industry groups on the state level and try to build momentum and support for further privacy aims.
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  • A very interesting draft. I think you owe us a more complete analysis of the animal rights movement's politics: most people think of animal rights as an area where the extremes have been reinforced and the adversaries have benefited from the perception of the movement's extremism. I don't disagree with you that there is a shift going on, but precisely because it is a shift, it might be worth spending a little more time showing how the shift is occurring. You are also closely relating the success to a particular approach, state legislative ballot initiatives, which are not always available, and which are not going to be easy to use, in particular, in relation to privacy concerns with federally-regulated businesses. So a further discussion of the ways in which your political strategy can be conducted by other means might be useful.
 
 
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