Gates' Washington trip a privacy affair
InternetNews | at | by Mike
After spending his morning testifying before Congress about America's shortcomings in the global competitiveness race, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates concluded his policy trip to Washington Wednesday night by calling for a uniform national privacy standard.
Keynoting a dinner hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology, Gates said consumers deserve laws that provide personal control over the data collected about them and transparency about how the data is collected.
"A uniform privacy law would be a strong milestone," Gates told almost 1,000 diners that included top officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission.