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U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules

posted by martyb on Sunday September 30 2018, @02:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the Why-doesn't-the-US-just-implement-the-GDPR? dept.

chromas (from IRC) writes:

U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules

The US administration called Tuesday for public comments on a "new approach to consumer data privacy" that could trigger fresh regulations of internet companies.

The Commerce Department said the announcement is part of an effort to "modernize US data privacy policy for the 21st century."

The move follows the implementation this year of ramped up data protection rules imposed by the European Union, and a new privacy law enacted in California.

Both measures will impact internet firms whose websites can be accessed around the globe.

Privacy and data protection have come into greater focus in response to these new laws, and also because of growing concerns on how private data is handled following revelations on the hijacking of millions of Facebook user profiles by a political consultancy ahead of the 2016 election.

"The United States has a long history of protecting individual privacy, but our challenges are growing as technology becomes more complex, interconnected and integrated into our daily lives," said David Redl, who heads the agency's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 30 2018, @05:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 30 2018, @05:01PM (#742116)

    women being Beacons of Incorruptible Pure Pureness (TM)

    lol, no

    In other words: class, race, and fear of spending eternity on fire, all pushed onto them largely by the actions of *men.*

    Both of these statements are true or neither of them are true. Beacons of Incorruptible Pure Pureness™ is obviously not true. We can at least agree on that much. Violating HIPAA is a crime. Violating Title IX is a crime. Throwing around “patriarchy” does not excuse your own actions.

    If I've got such all-powerful mind control powers through the all-men hive mind, then why am I unable to convince you shits that maths and computers aren't just for boys? Complicit in your own “oppression” more like it. How do you account for womyn-born-womyn who insist that I am wrong for believing that women can do maths and operate computers and are just as capable of any other career as any man? You can't. If you yourselves just need a man for anything involving numbers, nobody can help you! You can't account for any of it. Your next life will be interesting.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 30 2018, @05:31PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday September 30 2018, @05:31PM (#742124) Journal

    Um...you DO know I work with computers for a living, no? (Or, to be fair, will be again starting mid October; got a niiiiice offer!) I may not be a coder beyond a little Bash, but I never had an aversion to math and have a degree in a hard science, that being geology, not that I ever got to use the fucking thing. I do DIY furniture, too, which requires a certain amount of spatial and mathematical reasoning. I'm on a computer as many hours or more than are spent sleeping in any given day.

    You're lumping me in with the nutso crowd, and I would think after years of talking to one another that you'd know better. Then again, you seem to be in the mental equivalent of a full-on autoimmune crisis, unable to recognize a potential ally when you see one...

    --
    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...