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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: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:36PM (2 children)
On average, I agree with you.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:57PM
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
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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