Internet privacy policies are facing “challenges” as the world moves...
Internet privacy policies are facing “challenges” as the world moves to mobile broadband, AT&T Senior Vice President Robert Quinn said Tuesday. “We believe the whole world is going wireless,” Quinn said, speaking on a panel hosted by the Joint Center…
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for Political and Economic Studies. But that’s presenting a whole new set of problems, he said: First, the handsets are so small that even consolidated privacy policies are difficult to read. The other thing is that location technology, while it creates the potential for abuses, also “creates value” for subscribers, Quinn said. It’s possible that online coupon companies, for instance, could use handsets’ locators to plug deals at stores that the customer is passing. Computer and Communications Industry Association Public Policy Counsel Ross Schulman said he thinks not enough attention has been paid to the potential of government abuse of the lax privacy offered by mobile broadband. Current law says emails that are more than 180 days old aren’t protected by the Fourth Amendment. “Spam has greater protection than the email from your mom,” he said. Tuesday’s panels also included executives from the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Project to Get Older Adults online, Verizon, Microsoft, Georgetown University and staffers from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission and Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and John Kerry, D-Mass., as well as U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill.