The version of consumer protection that passed the House last year would help.
We need Congress to pass an American version of the "Protection of the Rights and Interests of Elderly People," as the new Chinese law is named.
European officials have even taken the step of setting up their own version of credit protection, which will be offered by the European Financial Stability Facility, a government-backed rescue fund.
To fill the gap, New York will be forced to rely on its own version of overdraft protection by raiding its short-term investment pool — a kind of statewide checking account.
Earlier this month, Williams-Sonoma, which owns the distressed Pottery Barn brand, announced that it would shed 1,400 jobs, and Waterford Wedgwood, the venerable crystal and china maker, filed for insolvency administration, the British version of bankruptcy protection.
But FTC, congressional or "czar" meddling would be the antimatter version of privacy protection, disrupt innovation and function primarily as a locus of lobbying and special pleading and regulating, generating ineptitude and unpreparedness when it comes to real advances in privacy, risk management, and in turn, online wealth creation.
When the act expired in 2011, it took the House of Representatives a year and a half to reauthorize it, during which time republican lawmakers tried to pass a watered-down version stripped of protections for diverse populations.
In addition, the Senate and House versions of bioweapons protection bills passed last month require laboratories possessing the potential weapons agents to register with the Department of Health and Human Services, while the House bill requires labs to register individual scientists as well.
On Monday security vendor McAfee plans to launch a new firewall appliance and a revamped version of its Total Protection set of network security products, including a revamped data loss prevention system, Web security and e-mail security appliances.
