CONSUMER RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS - Protect Personal Information
All individuals should be able to specify what degree of personal information that corporations can use, store and share about them, without having to do it a thousand times at a thousand different sites, and without having to worry about policy changes revealing their personal information to new sets of prying eyes. Privacy settings could be graded from extremely casual (things your coworkers might know such as your car preferences) to somewhat personal (what a friend might know - such as food preferences and OTC drug usage) to extremely personal (stuff only your spouse or doctor might know). Perhaps defaulting to either casual or somewhat personal.
CONSUMER RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS - Increase Information Quality, Quantity, and Clarity
Corporations are currently using deceptive phrasing ('white meat chicken' as bleached dark meat chicken) and misleading statements ('up to 50% off' with typical of 5% off). In order to make informed decisions consumers need accurate and clear information.
CONSUMER RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS - Contract Standardization
If consumers were to read every EULA and Privacy agreement that they 'agree' to it is estimated that we would be spending billions of dollars worth of time each year. Instead almost noone reads such agreements, and corporations frequently insert questionable and unlawful terms in such agreements. I'd like there to be standardized EULA and Privacy contracts similar to the standardized Creative Commons licenses for copyright law, so that users rights can be adequately protected and new licenses do not need to be read for a 1000 different simple transactions.
