In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court discusses privacy as an inalienable right, according to California's state constitution, urging California to create its own do-not-track mechanism if the federal government does not do so. "Advertisers may be able to target us better if they know everything about us," Court suggests, but argues the government should be expected "to protect us from being targeted for such invasive data collection without our knowledge and consent." A do-not-track move is important, Court writes, "because it sets the principle and precedent of the first real governmental limits on the Wild West of Internet data mining."
Full Story