Although Congress should do everything in its power to prevent federal agencies from abusing citizens' privacy rights, lawmakers must also take steps to protect citizens from private-sector abuses, a top privacy advocate contends. In a letter to House Majority Leader Dick . . .
Although Congress should do everything in its power to prevent federal agencies from abusing citizens' privacy rights, lawmakers must also take steps to protect citizens from private-sector abuses, a top privacy advocate contends. In a letter to House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Executive Director Marc Rotenberg urges the influential lawmaker to take a broad view of the privacy debate.

"It is not just with respect to government that our country has established rights of privacy in law; we have done so also with respect to actions among private individuals, the practices of business, the use of new technology, and the collection and use of personal information for commercial purposes," Rotenberg wrote.

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