Sen. Franken Introduces the Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011

Today, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.), chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced legislation that would require companies like Apple and Google as well as app developers to receive express consent from users of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets before sharing information about those users' location with third parties. The bill, called the Location Privacy Protection Act, would close current loopholes in federal law to ensure that consumers know what location information is being collected about them and allow them to decide if they want to share it.

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[pcvideogamer]

I've just read about this act from the BBC

"The Location Privacy Protection Act would make it illegal for companies to sell apps which provide the location of the phone to other users"

But it's ok for companies like Twitter, Pinterest and others to routinely make money out of its users doing exactly the same thing while masking their nakedly self-serving intention with a dumbed-down interface & PR-spin and the use of mortgaged-celebrities to seduce the techno-dumb to tweet or poke...at a price

[jezmundberserker]

@TheGiantRobot: Amen, dude.

[TheGiantRobot]

I see no reason for Franken to be here while Obama, who hates our rights as much as any Republican, who championed telecom legal immunity, is set to be the next president.

I simply cannot believe the majority of voters, not even the majority of Republican voters, would prefer to have Obama over Franken. There's no reason we should suffer this state of affairs when we could have real human beings representing us instead of empty corporate suits.