“A House bill designed to prevent attempts to regulate the Internet was part of a package of privacy measures introduced in late July. Included in the bill are prohibitions against regulating the rates charged to the customers of Internet information services, as well as against imposing federally-mandated standards on the industry.” The act will require industries to show users who are seeing the information. Also, users have to give consent to release their information. Secondly, before information is solicited to children parental permission must be given. Lastly, the bill gives users the option to “opt out” of giving personal information. Finally, the third bill will ban the ability to modify scanners to intercept cell phone calls.
I think after reading this article the bills are a great idea and will help protect Internet users. The Internet is growing at a fast-rate and there are more and more hackers stealing people’s identity on the Internet. These bills are another “patch” in the wireless system. Unfortunately, the government or whomever else are working to protect users will hit a dead end and will have to come up with other means to protect Internet users.
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