President Barack Obama needs to work with Congress...
President Barack Obama needs to work with Congress to codify his Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights (CPBR) to strengthen the privacy protections of Americans, said a letter (http://bit.ly/1chdMSI) from 35 organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation…
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and American Library Association, addressed to Obama. The letter was sent on the two-year anniversary of the Obama administration’s publication of its own CPBR (http://1.usa.gov/1lfWygZ), it said. “Americans today worry about retailers who lose their credit card information, intelligence agencies that gather their phone records, and data brokers that sell their family’s medical information to strangers,” it said. “We urge you to work with those in Congress who favor the privacy rights of Americans, who support updates to privacy law, and who understand why this issue is so critical to so many Americans,” it said.