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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.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday November 27 2019, @08:56PM
I remember a time when they did have control of the senate, and they let everybody spy on us back then too, did nothing about the Patriot Act, let the telcos and NSA spy like crazy, etc, etc. Going back to the same democrats will not help one bit. They are passing this feel good bullshit, as a form of campaigning, knowing it will die, because they don't really want to protect our privacy.
If you want change, then independents will have to take over the senate, and the house of course.The DNC/GOP will only give you more of what you already have
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..