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posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-is-its-chance-of-passing? dept.
Sorry guys - this is a dupe--JR

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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @10:52PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @10:52PM (#925478)

    Couldn't they look away from their porn long enough to check if the same article was posted a few hours earlier?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @03:12AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @03:12AM (#925531)

    It may be the case that the Soylent Eds are suffering from the ravages of old age. Some admit to having programmed on PDP machines, or used pre-Apple Personal Computers. These are seriously old people. TMB may be the youngest, allegedly clocking in at 56 years old (yeah, he says 40, but that is like being 39). So we may gradually follow Runaway1856 into Faux News induced senility, loosing all contact with reality, and ranting at the young people on our lawn, which doubles as a public park. Runaway his own self cannot recall the last time that he, well, you know, when the last time, um, he is not a Trump supporter!!!

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 28 2019, @06:41AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 28 2019, @06:41AM (#925576) Journal

      Some admit to having programmed on PDP machines, or used pre-Apple Personal Computers. These are seriously old people.

      I admit to writing code on punch cards. The programs never ran, I kept receiving back heaps of listing with syntax errors.
      Only later I was allowed to use a PDP - oh, the green shine of VT phosphorus.

      --
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Thursday November 28 2019, @05:59AM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 28 2019, @05:59AM (#925568) Journal

    You may not have noticed that it is Thanksgiving Day in the USA, followed by Black Friday. Many Americans are celebrating or shopping. I have just edited 15 consecutive stories single handedly and I expect to do a lot more this over this weekend. There are also fewer high quality stories submissions coming in so I have had to collect many of them myself. I apologise for my error. but there may be a few more to come in the next few days.

    If you are celebrating - have a good Thanksgiving Day!

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @07:53AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @07:53AM (#925587)

      How many aristarchus submissions have you personally killed, janrinok? I expect something like the stickers on Brit fighters bragging about enemy kills. How many, janrinock? One thousand? Two thousand? The entire 6800 rejected aristarchus submissions? No, that could not be you alone. But with the encouragement of a Right Winged Buzzard? Possible. And so we get dupe shit like this, from the ignoramous Runaway. You feel some fellow feeling? Navel past, eh, picking at the old Belly Button? Well, entertaining for some to watch. But for others it is like the reunion of the child-killers like Gallagher, only the more remote "action of Artillery toward shore". Child-killers.

      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday November 28 2019, @08:22AM

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 28 2019, @08:22AM (#925589) Journal

        How many of those that I have killed have not been written in English, but rather German, Dutch, French or whatever? This is an English language site.

        How many of those that I have killed have been repetitive submissions about the alt-right, with nothing new to say at all?

        Who has posted the few submissions of Aristarchus that have been suitable?