"Marc Rotenberg" is President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches Information Privacy Law and Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws at Georgetown University Law Center, and testifies frequently before Congress on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." Marc is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, FoxNews, and National Public Radio, and contributes to The Economist, The New York Times, and USA Today.

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The document itself is amazing.

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In terms of how information is collected and used on the Internet, ... to allow detailed secret profiles to be created is disastrous.

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It's sweeping, in terms of its impact, and we hope this is the start of better practices on Microsoft's part.

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This has a big implication for the national debate.

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We're not big fans for the posting of privacy policies because what is much more important is privacy practice.

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We think it's very useful that people can go to the Internet and get a lot of information, but we think it's appropriate to draw the line where personal information is given at a Web site.

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This is a very important development in terms of online privacy.

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Because Amazon announced that it could no longer guarantee that it would not disclose customer information to third parties, and in the absence of legal or technical means to assure privacy for Amazon customers, we have decided that we can no longer continue our relationship with Amazon.

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