From the blog: "One of the biggest problems with protecting privacy in the United States is
that, almost alone in the advanced-industrial world, we do not have an
overarching privacy law that codifies the basic privacy principles that are
accepted around the world as the gold standard for protecting this human
right.
Instead, the United States pursues a sector-by-sector approach to privacy.
The result is that our privacy protections vary wildly according to area. We
have some (inadequate) protections for our health and financial data, very few
protections for our commercial transactions, and very rigorous protections for
our video rental records." Read more
