Behind Eliot Spitzer's flaccid attempt at re-erecting his public persona is a plan to run for state attorney general in 2010, sources told Page Six.
After launching a column on Slate.com, and giving interviews to National Public Radio and the "Today" show, the sources say, the disgraced former governor told friends: "My record as governor was disappointing, but the voters will remember my excellent two terms as attorney general."
The sources say Spitzer, forever tarnished as Client No. 9 of a prostitution agency, expects Andrew Cuomo to run for governor next year, leaving open the Ag job. Several Democrats are already being mentioned as potential candidates,...
After launching a column on Slate.com, and giving interviews to National Public Radio and the "Today" show, the sources say, the disgraced former governor told friends: "My record as governor was disappointing, but the voters will remember my excellent two terms as attorney general."
The sources say Spitzer, forever tarnished as Client No. 9 of a prostitution agency, expects Andrew Cuomo to run for governor next year, leaving open the Ag job. Several Democrats are already being mentioned as potential candidates,...
- 4/14/2009
- NYPost.com
Albany’s an interesting place, and not just because residents of the New York Governor’s mansion seem to spend as much time bed-hopping as signing budgets. On a more important – although less salacious – note, downstate Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has introduced legislation that would shore up Internet users’ rapidly deteriorating privacy, reports the New York Times today.
The bill, as the Times explains, would apply to targeted advertising companies – companies that monitor the websites you visit, typically using cookies for that purpose. It would prohibit those companies from using information about you for advertising without your consent.
Because this would be a state statute – Brodsky’s a state legislator – the bill could not directly establish national standards. However, the seamless nature of the Internet and the relative expense and difficulty of geotargeting mean that the statute might become a de facto standard nationwide, or perhaps worldwide.
I took a look...
The bill, as the Times explains, would apply to targeted advertising companies – companies that monitor the websites you visit, typically using cookies for that purpose. It would prohibit those companies from using information about you for advertising without your consent.
Because this would be a state statute – Brodsky’s a state legislator – the bill could not directly establish national standards. However, the seamless nature of the Internet and the relative expense and difficulty of geotargeting mean that the statute might become a de facto standard nationwide, or perhaps worldwide.
I took a look...
- 3/20/2008
- by noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Handel)
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