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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
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 "However, the Act's imprecise language, limited legislative history, and somewhat outdated regulatory guidelines have rendered it a difficult statute to decipher and apply."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: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 20 2019, @02:45AM (6 children)
American women like those in the CIA or who were otherwise trained in the art of interrogation at Fort Machaca, Arizona, can easily sniff-out phonies like you. But those vixens are extremely adept in interrogating Muslims, they'll capture a motherfucker from ISIS or something, ship him to Gitmo, then in the interrogation room they will rub their tits on a Koran in plain sight of them, while playing American heavy-metal music. If that doesn't cause the suspect to confess, then they will break out the leather and ball-gags. The interrogators are of those of the most serious degree, as they have been known to slip random pages from Heavy Metal Magazine [heavymetal.com] into the pages of the Korans of Guantanamo prisoners, and in their torture play nonstop Guns 'n' Roses and Metallica whilst "interviewing" their suspects.
They will break down one's Islamic beliefs until the suspects are left as living husks of men, and those women of the CIA and military intelligence are sexually gratified.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @02:50PM (1 child)
We'll finally know he was too close to the truth.
Honestly this is one of the MOST believable things to come out of Ethanol-Fueled's mind that I have heard so far.
You never use interrogation to get someone to actually get information out of someone, but if you soften them up with it first, especially if they are already sexually frustrated, you will have no trouble unravelling it from them later when all that pent up stress needs to be released and you slowly build them to a satisfying climax after which they will answer, do or say whatever you ask.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Sunday January 20 2019, @06:07PM
Ahem. You and EF should get a room.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 20 2019, @04:39PM
I had no idea you were 1) a Muslim and 2) this kinky.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @08:41PM (1 child)
You have been reported to the Department of Homoland Security.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @04:25AM
Thankyou.
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Monday January 21 2019, @11:17AM
They actually played NiN and Skinny Puppy.
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