Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956
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.
The proposals within COPRA fall basically into three main buckets: enumerated rights for consumers, data-handling requirements for businesses, and enforcement mechanisms.
As explained in a one-page summary of the bill (PDF), the rights consumers would gain from COPRA include:
- The right to be free from deceptive and harmful data practices; financial, physical, and reputational injury, and acts that a reasonable person would find intrusive, among others
- The right to access their data and greater transparency, which means consumers have detailed and clear information on how their data is used and shared
- The right to control the movement of their data, which gives consumers the ability to prevent data from being distributed to unknown third parties
- The right to delete or correct their data
- The right to take their data to a competing product or service
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:30PM (5 children)
Just two stories before, it looks like the same.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:35PM (3 children)
I submitted this one, at the same time I submitted several others. After doing so, I looked at the subs queue, and saw that it had already been submitted. LOL, I guess it was important enough to publish twice?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:45PM
But do you reserve your right to comment on the other one too?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @02:55AM (1 child)
Typical Runaway sub: both redundant and off-topic at the same time. Takes a special kind of stupid to do this. But at least he's keeping the Ari subs off the front page! All alt-right, all the time!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @09:59AM
Watch your salt intake there, starchy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @11:46PM
Pete and Re:Pete were sitting in a boat. Pete jumped out. Who was left?