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US lawmakers kick off debate over online privacy
US lawmakers opened a debate Tuesday over privacy legislation in the first step by Congress toward regulation addressing a series of troublesome data protection abuses by tech firms.
Most companies have said they would accept new federal legislation in the wake of bombshell revelations about Facebook and other online platforms' mishandling of users' personal data.
Lawmakers face several key choices, including whether to adopt the model in the European Union's data protection rules, and whether to pre-empt the strict privacy rules adopted by California.
A House of Representatives committee hearing on Tuesday is to be followed by a Senate panel Wednesday where industry and interest groups will make recommendations on US legislation.
Legislators are likely to find broad agreement on the need for greater transparency regarding the collection and sharing of data, and on tougher enforcement for violations.
Beyond that, sharp differences exist on how tightly tech firms should be reined in.
"A federal law must include basic rights for individuals to access, correct, delete and port their personal data," said Nuala O'Connor, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a digital rights group, in testimony prepared for the House Energy and Commerce panel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @07:32PM
if you enter your data into an application on my server it is not your data anymore. it is "our" data that is governed by my privacy policy and the TOS. in my case i don't do shit with our data except provide the services you request. these privacy laws are just pandering so that government slavemasters don't lose all control over their precious slaves to corps and actually only serves to further entrench the worst privacy offenders. they will add regulations over time to force the small players out. there are already some things like extracting all of one users data from backups that i'm not sure how to address, for instance. they are already mandating what features must be built into an app to do business based on the bad behavior of these scum that are so happy for regulation. they will allow the big players with all the lawyers to continue to screw the ignorant windows and mac using slaves. the same ignorant facebook using monkeys that will clamor for this legislation.