My Way News - Microsoft, Google back broad privacy legislation
AP reports: "At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on online advertising, representatives of the two technology rivals said meaningful privacy rules should be based on three core principles: Consumers should be clearly notified what information is being collected about them; people should control how that information is used; and such data should be secured to ensure it does not fall into the wrong hands."

Comment: This will be interesting, it's a clash of interests. On the one hand, we have consumers who view their personal data as "theirs" and on the other hand we have businesses who view consumer data as a commodity to be bought and sold. If only consumers had their own lobbyists we could hope that privacy laws would favor them.