{"id":1081,"date":"2009-09-04T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legalbytes.ignite.lexblog.com\/2009\/09\/privacy-and-consumer-groups-want-more-than-just-self-regulation\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:32:23","slug":"privacy-and-consumer-groups-want-more-than-just-self-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalbytes.com\/2009\/09\/04\/privacy-and-consumer-groups-want-more-than-just-self-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy and Consumer Groups Want More Than Just Self-Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was also\u00a0written by Adam Snukal.<\/em><\/p>\n

As previously reported in Legal Bytes<\/strong>, it seems that not everyone is satisfied with the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising<\/a> recently promulgated by several leading advertising associations. A group of 10 consumer and privacy advocacy organizations (i.e., Center for Digital Democracy<\/a>, Consumer Federation of America<\/a>, Consumers Union<\/a>, Consumer Watchdog<\/a>, Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>, Privacy Lives<\/a>, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse<\/a>, Privacy Times<\/a>, U.S. Public Interest Research Group<\/a> and The World Privacy Forum<\/a>\u00a0called on Congress earlier this week to enact legislation in response to what they feel are genuine threats to privacy arising from online behavioral tracking and targeting.<\/p>\n

The guiding principles the coalition wants Congress to follow in its enactment of privacy legislation are substantively contained in the following Fair Information Practices (\u201cFIP\u201d), which the coalition claims has been the foundation of U.S. privacy policies for decades: collection limitations, data quality, purpose specification\/communication, use limitation, security safeguards, appropriate openness, individual participation and knowledge rights, accountability, and redress. FIP was coined by a U.S. government advisory committee in 1973 in response to the use of automated data systems that contained information about individuals. The U.S. Privacy Act of 1974<\/a> established a code of fair information practices, and the FTC refers to these practices in a report entitled, Privacy Online: Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace<\/a> (May 2000).<\/p>\n

A sample of the principles contained in the coalition\u2019s Legislative Primer, entitled Online Behavioral Tracking and Targeting Concerns and Solutions, includes:<\/p>\n