One of Silicon Valley's dicier dichotomies is to trumpet the value of open access to information, while relentlessly guarding their own corporate info from the public. The third rail for this contradiction is data mining. A current proposal in the California State Assembly calls for Internet firms to reveal to the state's consumers how their personal information is being used. This bill gets to the heart of data mining's profound invasion of individual privacy for unshared commercial gain.
Unsurprisingly, some of the Valley's heavy hitters, through the vehicle of a lobbying organization, is fighting the legislation tooth and nail.
According to a story in siliconvalley.com, the tech industry is muscling the State Assembly to have consideration on the bill delayed, forgotten, killed.
The legislation that has aroused the ire of Santa Clara County's tech giants (and, yes, Microsoft) is AB1291.
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