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Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill

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

upstart writes:

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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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• Re:Proposed Amendment (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @03:02PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @03:02PM (#925348)

  When either chamber of congress is in session, the doors must be closed, the room must be hermetically sealed.

  Why? Because. Or something. Think of the children! Etc

  History shows you to be quite correct! [ambians.com]

  Fortune's nomination for All-Time Champion and Protector of Youthful
  Morals goes to Representative Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan. During an
  impassioned House debate over a proposed bill to "expand oyster and
  clam research," a sharp-eared informant transcribed the following
  exchange between our hero and Rep. John D. Dingell, also of Michigan.

  DINGELL: There are places in the world at the present time where we are
                    having to artificially propagate oysters and clams.
  HOFFMAN: You mean the oysters I buy are not nature's oysters?
  DINGELL: They may or may not be natural. The simple fact of the matter
                    is that female oysters through their living habits cast out
                    large amounts of seed and the male oysters cast out large
                    amounts of fertilization ...
  HOFFMAN: Wait a minute! I do not want to go into that. There are many
                    teenagers who read The Congressional Record.

  Parent