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US Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has proposed a federal privacy law that would preempt tougher privacy rules issued by states.
Rubio's announcement Wednesday said that his American Data Dissemination (ADD) Act "provides overdue transparency and accountability from the tech industry while ensuring that small businesses and startups are still able to innovate and compete in the digital marketplace."
But Rubio's bill establishes a process for creating rules instead of issuing specific rules right away, and it allows up to 27 months for Congress or the Federal Trade Commission to write the actual rules.
In addition, the bill text says it "shall supersede" any provision of a state law that pertains to the same consumer data governed by Rubio's proposed federal law. That includes names, Social Security numbers, other government ID numbers, financial transactions, medical histories, criminal histories, employment histories, user-generated content, "unique biometric data, such as fingerprint, voice print, retina or iris image, or other unique physical representation," and other personal data collected by companies.
[...] Rubio's bill wouldn't do much to protect Americans' data privacy, consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge said. The Rubio bill uses the Privacy Act of 1974 as its framework; the 1974 law applies to federal agencies, but Rubio's bill would apply similar rules to the private sector.
[...] The Act "can generally be characterized as an omnibus 'code of fair information practices' that attempts to regulate the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personal information by federal executive branch agencies," the DOJ says in an overview last updated in 2015. "However, the Act's imprecise language, limited legislative history, and somewhat outdated regulatory guidelines have rendered it a difficult statute to decipher and apply."
Despite the DOJ saying the law is confusing, Rubio argued in an op-ed for The Hill that the Privacy Act of 1974 is "widely considered one of the seminal pieces of privacy law in effect today."
[...] Congressional Democrats recently proposed a much stricter privacy law, which could issue steep fines to companies and send their top executives to prison for up to 20 years if they violate Americans' privacy.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 20 2019, @01:18AM (6 children)
I had the experience of lunch and a talk from Rubio during his 100 points of light campaign before he entered State level government.
He was (and I'm sure still is) 100% lizard people. He didn't like our group, believe in our group, nor ever help our group, and you could read that in his body language before he stood up and his face during the moments while he was psyching himself up to put on his public face, tell the crowd what they wanted to hear - which he barely got right, didn't really understand our issues but did manage to spout most of the right buzz words mostly in correct context, smile charmingly, and make heartfelt sounding "I will help you" platitudes come out of his mouth.
The real test for Rubio was his actions performance on his 100 points of light tour, he accomplished absolutely nothing on his promises, maybe 25% of the 100 points got done, but they were in-progress to get done before he adopted them as a cause, and the other 75%, like ours, got ignored.
Rubio's vote has been for sale since he entered office, and I'm sure it still is. If you want his vote, just make sure to lobby him with a bigger carrot than the other side is bringing.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @01:20AM (5 children)
Lizard. It's what's for lunch!
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Sunday January 20 2019, @03:19AM (4 children)
Rubio is a festering slimy dick. Along with the truly reptilian Red Tide Rick, Florida has the two worst senators in the US.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:24AM (2 children)
Well, it is a state full of people who always leave their turn signals on. Funny that's almost always the left one. And they occupy the left lane like those kids on Wall Street.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:49PM (1 child)
No problem, just ban all vehicles except for GM products. It is extremely rare to see a GM car or truck use a turn signal, especially the left one.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday January 21 2019, @12:45AM
Hmm, didn't know the vehicle had a choice... What does the driver do? Adjust the climate control?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 20 2019, @12:37PM
Such other interests to include the Care Spot chain of doc-in-a-box operations which he threw governmental favors to while he was governor of Florida.
Scott came to give a speech at a startup company I worked for one morning, he looks more like a fully committed wannabe lizard person - clearly he's somebody's bitch, seemed like he hadn't slept for days and wasn't doing any thinking for himself, just standing behind the mic with big black bags under his eyes while spewing the party line, somewhat halting and groggy.
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