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posted by chromas on Saturday July 28 2018, @04:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the privacy-versus-prosperity dept.

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The Trump administration is working on a set of data privacy protections, the Washington Post reports, and according to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, officials have held 22 meetings with more than 80 companies and groups since last month. Companies like Facebook, Google, AT&T and Comcast have been involved, according to four Washington Post sources familiar with the matter. The short-term goal is to deliver a data privacy proposal -- including how data should be collected and handled and what rights consumers have regarding that data -- which could serve as a guide for lawmakers as they consider legislation.

Axios reported last month that the White House was looking into a data privacy plan, meeting with groups like the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group representing companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook, and The Business Roundtable, a lobbying group that hosts tech CEOs like Apple's Tim Cook, IBM's Virginia Rometty and Verizon's Lowell McAdam.

"Through the White House National Economic Council, the Trump Administration aims to craft a consumer privacy protection policy that is the appropriate balance between privacy and prosperity," Lindsay Walters, the president's deputy press secretary, told the Washington Post. "We look forward to working with Congress on a legislative solution consistent with our overarching policy."

The draft proposal also asks Congress to devise a law that would preempt any state laws, notable as California has just passed its own set of data privacy regulations. Vermont has taken on data privacy through legislation as well.

The White House is reportedly working to have its data privacy plan set this fall. Meanwhile, multiple lawmakers have now introduced their own data privacy bills in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/27/white-house-federal-data-privacy-policy/


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Saturday July 28 2018, @08:15PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Saturday July 28 2018, @08:15PM (#714083) Journal

    This is a Steve Bannon thing. He wanted regulation on social media/etc that kept them from selling your data. Iirc it was something along the lines of allowing you to opt in to selling your own data, but that you are the only one with the right to sell your data

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