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Businesses in general, and technology companies in particular, tend to regard increased federal regulation with the distaste usually reserved for blind, furry crabs. That's why the recent spectacle of big business petitioning the government to pass the laws is so intriguing. The Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum today released a statement calling on Congress to enact a comprehensive data privacy bill that would help reassure consumers that their private information is safe both online and off.
If the Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum were just another in the long line of consumer-oriented nonprofits who regularly call for such legislation, we in the Orbiting HQ might look down from on high with a shrug. After all, data privacy violations have been in the headlines for years, yet the federal government still has no comprehensive plan to deal with the problem. What makes the CPLF's announcement interesting, though, is that it's signed by major technology players like Intel, eBay, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard.
