WASHINGTON- we announced legislators Friday to enact a law to "Do not Track" that would allow Internet users block companies gather information on their activities online.
Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said that its "monitoring online 2011 act not" will offer a "simple, simple way for people to stop companies from all followed their move on the Internet."
"Consumers have the right to know when and how their personal and sensitive information are used online - and more important still to be able to say"Thank you"when firms seek to collect this information without their consent""Rockefeller said in a release."
In the House of representatives, Joe Barton, a Texas Republican and Edward Markey, a Democrat of Massachusetts, has published a draft of a bill "Do step Track" separate to protect children online.
US Senators John Kerry and John McCain presented a draft online privacy Bill last month requiring data collection companies to allow a consumer to "opt-out" of having their information collected.
The former Democratic presidential candidates and said Republicans sought to strike a balance between the protection of privacy on the Internet and the needs of e-commerce companies to conduct their bipartisan bill.
The avalanche of legislation comes in a series of incidents of theft of large-scale data, including the theft of personal information of Sony in addition to $ 100 million accounts and controversy on technology in the iPhone from Apple and smartphones running the software for tracking Google's Android.
Apple and Google have been invited to attend a Congress hearing on the privacy of next week following claims the iPhone and Android devices regularly track the location of the user and stores the data.
Rockefeller, President of the Senate Commerce Committee, said that his Bill would create a "legal duty" for all businesses online honoring the choice of consumers who say they do not want to be tracked online.
This would give the Federal Trade Commission the power to prosecute any company that honors not the application.
Barton and Markey, the co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional privacy caucus, said their "follow in the footsteps Act on children 2011"establishes new measures for the protection of personal information of children and adolescents."."
"For millions of children today, Internet is their playground again of the 21st century," Markey said in a statement. "But the children grow up in the online environment also require protection against the dangers which may lurk in cyberspace."
Barton said Internet has "transformed in an educational research, valuable and tool of entertainment, but with the good comes the bad."
"I firmly believe that information should not be collected on children and used for commercial purposes," he said.
The Bill would require including online companies obtain parental consent before collecting personal information from children and prohibit them from using the personal information of children and adolescents for targeted marketing.
It would also create a "eraser" button for parents and children that would allow users to delete the content of personal information accessible to the public "when it is technically feasible."
Jeff Chester of the Center for digital democracy welcomed the Bill, saying: "youth are targets of a powerful digital data collection system, their follow-up everywhere where they are - on mobile phones, social networks, play games", or browse the Web.
"We need a law for the protection of privacy in the 21st century that protects children and adolescents", said Chester.
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