NCC Privacy Group Gears Up.With privacy issues on the agendas of several government agencies, the National Consumer Coalition's Privacy Group has been quite active this summer, studying a wide array of issues relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc consumer privacy. The Privacy Group is a subgroup of the NCC NCC See National Clearing Corporation (NCC). , a coalition founded by Consumer Alert of two dozen non-profit groups with a membership of over two million that works to advance consumers' interest through deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. and the free market. Privacy Group members have met this summer to discuss issues including the FBI's Carnivore carnivore (kär`nəvôr'), term commonly applied to any animal whose diet consists wholly or largely of animal matter. In animal systematics it refers to members of the mammalian order Carnivora (see Chordata). system, financial privacy, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Not to be confused with the Child Online Protection Act. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998[1] (COPPA)[2] is a United States federal law, located at Title 15, Section 6501, et seq., of the United States Code. , and the proposed Congressional "Privacy Protection Commission." The NCC Privacy Group will work to bring commonsense free-market perspectives to debates over security and privacy in policy debates. One of the primary issues is the private compilation of data, where consumers usually find trade-offs, versus government compilaton of data, which may be coerced. Many members of the Privacy Group will have their work featured on the upcoming Privacilla.org website, maintained by Jim Harper of PolicyCounsel.com. |
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