-The Daily Online Examiner, January 27, 2011 by Wendy Davis
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=143778
“We’ve tried voluntary codes for over a decade now, and in the privacy field, it hasn’t gone too well,” writes Berkeley Law’s Chris Hoofnagle. “In the absence of substantive privacy law, commercial data brokers created the very citizen databases that the Privacy Act of 1974 sought to prevent. The government can simply buy data on its citizens now instead of collecting it directly.”
-National Journal, Tech Daily Dose, January 28, 2011 by Juliana Gruenwald
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2011/01/groups-firms-weigh-in-on-priva.php
Noting that FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz has pushed Congress to provide the FTC with greater rulemaking authority, Hoofnagle said in his comments that, “The Department of Commerce should support these initiatives in order to bolster its narrative surrounding FTC enforcement.”