Yesterday Senators John Kerry and John McCain introduced their “Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act” in its final form to Congress. The much-debated bill was a far cry from the Federal Trade Commission’s recommendations that would have enforced the use of a government-defined opt-out mechanism which might have severely restricted the tracking of website users.
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