Senate ponders online privacy issues, but doesn’t agree on anything

A senate committee hearing was held on Tuesday and they couldn’t agree on anything. Not exactly news is it? The Senate Commerce committee held the hearing over concerns about online privacy. Everything from Google’s accidental interception of some WiFi traffic during a Google Streetview run to Facebook’s privacy issues and AT&T’s recent iPad related security breach. Representatives from Google and Facebook testified. Despite the lengthy hearing, the committee couldn’t agree on what to do about them, and in fact some of the senators seemed downright clueless about the internet. Take Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D. W.Va) who referred to Amazon as a “machine”, and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) who asked the Google rep if there was privacy information contained in printed out grocery store coupons (the representative politely told her Google doesn’t offer grocery coupons).

What I think everyone can agree on is that if there is anything to be done about issues like online privacy, net neutrality, and cybersecurity, we are going to need to elect some tech-savvy senators and congresspeople!

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