thehill.com,
Fri 09/30:
Data privacy bill is flawed, but necessary
A bipartisan data privacy bill that progressed out of a House committee in July has not been getting the attention it deserves in the news. What’s good about the bill
The bill makes some significant improvements over current policy. A prohibition against a variety of activities, such as looking into what applications each person is using, without their explicit permission. What’s not-so-good
The legislation falls short of ideal privacy protections, granting exemption to some organizations and protecting the practices of large data collectors, government agencies and the advertising industry. Smaller platforms leverage the success of the biggest players and can pose just as much risk to users. But despite its flaws and the obstacles it faces, the ADPPA would make significant progress, making some desperately needed improvements over woefully insufficient national laws that predate the existence of modern cyberspace.
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