On-line Privacy Concerns Grow

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

It's not the government, it's the advertising industry.
Why else would it have been handed over the Dept of Commerce ?

It was handed over to Commerce, to keep it away from Homeland Security & NSA, because that would generate immediate distrust that it's a national identity database.
This isn't about tracking for advertisers, they already have that well in hand, ask Google.
This is about coming up with secure a method, to be implemented by private firms, of online monetary transactions, to cut down on fraud and hopefully identity theft. Or at least the damage identity thieves can do.