Cyber Security Under the Money Tree

The Congress is looking at passing cyber security measures.  As part of its efforts to dramatize the push, sponsors of various bills liken the danger of inaction to setting the country up for either another Pearl Harbor or 911.  Various iterations of the bills will allow information corporations to buy and sell private user's personal data immune from consumer lawsuits.  One corporation interested in this change is Google, which has recently changed its privacy policy to allow across-the-board serving of advertising based on user's email content and web-browsing history.  By having a government mandate to share information that applies to all information servers, Google will retain both its market share and advertising revenues.  Customers will be no better off when trying to shop providers for more privacy, because privacy simply will not exist on the net.