What we are looking at is a situation with privacy legislation where you're trying to anticipate and put in place rules that are going to be applied—or hopefully are going to be applied—in a huge diversity of circumstances. So almost by necessity, there has to be language that talks about principles rather than rules. It's not necessarily a yes or no, but of looking at the totality of the circumstance and asking, is this reasonable or is this not? Ultimately we're trying to come up with an objective standard, which would likely be would a reasonable person consider the result of this project, or the possible likely result of this project, to be harmful. Ultimately, the courts do step in and take that role.
On June 3rd, 2008. See this statement in context.