Privacy is about to heat up again in Congress. Sen. Jay
Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Commerce Committee, reintroduced his Do
Not Track Online Act, which will give consumers the ability to prevent online
companies from tracking them on the Web and using that information for profit.
First introduced in May 2011, the bill never made it out of
Rockefeller's own committee even though the powerful chairman held plenty of
hearings on privacy issues.
