Congress Pretends to Care About Citizens’ Privacy

By Tim Grubbs
July 17, 2008
Law, Technology

Confidential PrivacyIn an article from Yahoo! News, we learn of another chapter in the ongoing story of Congressional investigation of NebuAd, a web monitoring service which allows companies to target web-based advertising based on individual users’ browsing history.

Of course, Congress wants to seem as though they care about the privacy of the American public when it comes to businesses making possible violations. However, when government spies on the public, that’s apparently okay as evidenced by the recent vote on the FISA Amendment.

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