Governments around the world are creating legislation on who consumer data belongs to and how best to protect it.
A new regulator with powers to fine hospitals and shut down wards will be created under legislation set out today in the Queen's speech.
The denial and 'kill the messenger' sentiments made by Obama's supporters are creating bad legislation and will lead to electoral disaster in 2010 and 2012.
So the regulator will be created not by legislation but under a Royal Charter — a quaint constitutional oddity and the mechanism used to incorporate bodies such as the BBC.
Centrist Democrats have also raised objections to a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency that would be created by the legislation to regulate the sale of financial products and services.
Mr. Obama also said he believed that high-deductible insurance policies, used in conjunction with health care savings accounts, could be offered to consumers in new federally regulated exchanges, or marketplaces, that would be created by his legislation.
The new body, to be created under future legislation, will include Soca and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
The strategy recommends an annual fund, of up to £20,000, should be created when the legislation comes into force.
A two-tier system of operations based upon the point of sale would be created under the legislation.
On Sunday, New York senator Charles Schumer said that legislation should be created to prevent people from making 3D printed guns.
