"Before countless commercial drones begin to fly overhead, we must ground their operation in strong rules to protect privacy and promote transparency," said Senator Edward Markey, in a statement related to his prescient bill on commercial drone privacy.
In a small number of cases where the F.D.A. has succeeded in getting stronger rules, the industry has fought back.
The Obama administration has begun to put stronger rules in place; Congress, in contrast, has failed to do anything.
Which raises an interesting question: Why didn't the banks put stronger rules in place long ago?
He said the talks had been an "extremely difficult conversation because there are 44 countries on an equal footing", although he praised Cameron and Osborne for pioneering stronger rules in some key areas.
Additional Fact: Title II did shift authority for privacy and security practices from the FTC to the FCC, which then put stronger rules in place to address some internet provider-specific vulnerabilities.
What's more, experts say many if not most of the gun-related tragedies that have captured national attention in recent years appear unlikely to have been prevented, even had stronger rules been in place barring people with mental illnesses from owning weapons.
That doesn't go down well with those in west Africa who are supposed to be benefiting from the contribution of the trial to a – in theory – stronger rule of law and weaker culture of impunity for the subregion, the continent and the world, as a whole.
(Although Wall Street used its political clout in Congress to weaken the stronger rules that Obama and others wanted).
Still, he said, some stronger rules may be in order.
