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Commissioners for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) testifying before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Wednesday called for a national privacy law.
Such a law would regulate how large tech and social media companies collect, manage, and retain user data.
The lack of a National Privacy Law
keeps the country from parity with the EU and its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
...or, for that matter, with the state of California, with its California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Several national privacy bills have been introduced in the past 12 months. One, called the Data Care Act (DCA), was introduced by 15 senators and has strong industry support from the likes of Facebook, Apple, Verizon, Google, Twitter, Mozilla and Microsoft. Another was introduced by Washington Senator Suzan Delbene, another by Senator Ron Wyden dubbed the Consumer Data Protection Act, and still another called the American Data Dissemination (ADD) Act by Senator Marco Rubio.
Besides consumer protection, the FTC is looking for more power. Commissioners asked Congress to strengthen the agency's ability to police violations, asking for more resources and greater authority to impose penalties.
The usual concerns attend the bills such as costs to small businesses and startups, compatibility with and effect on existing privacy laws, and resistance to continuing to allow California to dictate in the tech sector.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @01:36PM (6 children)
Last time our local government wanted to protect out privacy we had to give even more data on ourselves for everything as a result.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @02:04PM (5 children)
Agreed, this is an educational and technological problem. Whatever these people come up with will just make things worse.
People just aren't comprehending the scale of the datarape they are suffering. Go visit places like palo alto to see how rich these creepy fucks are getting by offering a "free service".
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 11 2019, @02:14PM (4 children)
Oh, you could write a good privacy law if you tried. It would go something like "don't sell user info and let folks know what user info you collect and how you use it". But in lawyer speak of course because we can't have laws being written that the folks having to follow them can understand.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RandomFactor on Saturday May 11 2019, @02:30PM (3 children)
DelBene's bill even says no lawyer speak:
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В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @02:51PM (1 child)
Looks like popups with audio.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday May 11 2019, @06:24PM
Script and Ad blocking became my default state back when websites first started abusing the hell out of people with things like that.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:47PM
I wonder how that happened. Maybe he missed a meeting with the lobbyists assigned to him.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.