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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 27 2019, @01:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the only-have-to-win-once dept.

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Senate takes another stab at privacy law with proposed COPRA bill

Perhaps the third time's the charm: a group of Senate Democrats, following in the recent footsteps of their colleagues in both chambers, has introduced a bill that would impose sweeping reforms to the current disaster patchwork of US privacy law.

The bill (PDF), dubbed the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA), seeks to provide US consumers with a blanket set of privacy rights. The scope and goal of COPRA are in the same vein as Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in May 2018.

Privacy rights "should be like your Miranda rights—clear as a bell as to what they are and what constitutes a violation," Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), who introduced the bill, said in a statement. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) also co-sponsored the bill.

The press release announcing the bill also includes statements of support from several consumer and privacy advocacy groups, such as Consumer Reports, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology, and the NAACP.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @02:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @02:14PM (#925338)

    And don't forget that the Mitchster [twimg.com] has held up something like 400 bills [nationalmemo.com] passed by the House [thehill.com] since the beginning of 2019.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @05:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @05:00PM (#925382)

    That article is disingenuous in at least two ways.

    The first is that it lies about the bill count. Here [congress.gov] is a list of all bills introduce by the house. The exact count, as of now, is 335. Unfortunately there's no clear date filter but it's pretty safe to say the number was significantly lower 2 months ago when that article was written. 300 is an absurd number of bills, well over 1 per day. There's no reason to exaggerate, but sensationalists can't resist sensationalizing even when the truth itself is already pretty absurd!

    The second, and more important, are the bills themselves. Look through the bills listed in the above link. You'll find some genuinely good bills that have not made their way through the senate yet, but they're vastly outnumbered by a large number of bills that clearly have no chance of passing along the lines of the 'let's take in a bunch of syrian "moderate rebels" as refugees act.'

    Democracy doesn't work when people don't work together. I think the behavior this paper references is not only unproductive but actively counterproductive. How is introducing on the order of tens of laws per day (that 335 is a small subset of all bills introduced) conducive to creating a society that has any clue whatsoever what's going on with their nation's legal and political systems? I think it also even shows a disinterest in actually trying to get these things passed. Both parties want various things. They could compromise and make a deal. Instead we just get rampant trolling.