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posted by martyb on Saturday May 11 2019, @12:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the of-course-it-would-apply-to-the-NSA-too dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:20PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:20PM (#842324)

    And the same morons that opposed it will oppose this as well because they're too stupid to understand what's going on.

    You make it sound like the skyrocketing prices started after the ACA was passed, but the reality is that the rates were previously skyrocketing and they slowed a bit until Trump and the GOP came in and purposefully destabilized the system.

    That's not to say that the Democrats didn't fuck it up massively by refusing to include a public option, but blame where blame is due, the GOP, all those lawsuits and refusing to expand medicaid is a big part of the problem.

    It's a shame that morons like you still don't get it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:31PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:31PM (#842326)

    I have no health insurance, and don't want any. The whole thing has been a scam for many years now, the affordable care act just tried to force people to buy into the scam so it could grow even bigger. No surprise there.

    Healthcare itself has also been becoming scammier and scammier too. In general, avoid it like the plague and you will be better off on average (not saying you will live forever or anything).

    There are specific cases where they can do something useful for you, but the vast majority of it seems to do more harm than good. Or even just be treating the consequences of previous healthcare intervention/advice. The low fat diet and UVB only sunscreen advice alone probably has caused more harm than all the benefit in the last 50 years.

    • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:36PM (2 children)

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:36PM (#842329) Journal

      I have no health insurance, and don't want any. The whole thing has been a scam for many years now

      On average, I agree with you.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:57PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:57PM (#842340)

        Just add up how much you could save before the typical healthcare need strikes. Then look at the actual cost of whatever procedure you need not the 2-20x inflated chargemaster prices. People would be far better off saving their money. Perhaps some very low premium, really high deductible, insurance makes sense too.

      • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Saturday May 11 2019, @04:33PM

        by istartedi (123) on Saturday May 11 2019, @04:33PM (#842366) Journal

        I have no health insurance, and don't want any. The whole thing has been a scam for many years now, the affordable care act just tried to force people to buy into the scam so it could grow even bigger. No surprise there.

        Well, health insurance is impossible anyway. Insurance can only protect against *financial* loss. Aside from those semantics, what we call "health insurance" is really more like a poorly run buyer's club that carves up the free market into little fiefdoms so it won't function. Of course you don't want to buy that. Neither do I but some sometimes you have to play the game.

        What's insane is that the kind of networks you have in health aren't allowed for car insurance here--you have a right to repair your car at any licensed shop, and the insurance company has to pay for it. Labor rates and parts prices are well known.

        A bunch of lobbyists actually tried to move car insurance towards the health model, by allowing forced steering to "network shops" here in California, and fortunately we stopped that dead in its tracks.

        We literally take care of our cars better than we do our bodies.

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