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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/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by shipofgold on Saturday July 28 2018, @08:49PM (4 children)
Face it...your insurance would have gone up with or without obamacare....it was already skyrocketing during Bush's presidency and why do you think that was?
Your going to pay for healthcare one way or another...I would prefer to have the costs up-front and visible instead of under the table with current insurance where depending on who you work for, or who you know you get different charges for the same procedure.
The total dollars spent on healthcare in the USA went from 1.36 trillion USD in 2000 to 2.4 trillion USA in 2008, and then to 3.4 Trillion in 2016. So it went up 1 trillion during Bush, and 1 trillion during Obama. But the percent change was much more during Bush....
Somebody is paying those total dollars, and it is better to spread it out and make sure everybody understands it. When you go to a doctor and the first words you hear are what health insurance do you have? something is wrong!
The population as a whole want obamacare or single-payer...it is the politicians (and the russians) who are trying to divide the public on this point. I am certain the russians are meddling in this like everyting else...anything to keep the USA unstable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @09:28PM (2 children)
The russians are the new jews apparently.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Sulla on Saturday July 28 2018, @11:06PM
You need to make sure to use brackets to point them out so people know [[[RUSSIANS!!!!]]]
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:15AM
Naw...The Russian are the old Russians, only with computers now.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @06:59AM
Russia has single-payer healthcare guaranteed by their constitution. Just sayin'