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America's best chance for nationwide privacy law could do more harm than good
(www.theregister.com)
Did anyone really expect something else from the US?
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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Didn't California do a good GDPR copy?
I wasn't talking about separate states but yea California made some nice tech decisions recently.
I don't know about "good" but it works once in a while.
If it won't do more harm than good, nobody would try to do it.
Uhm you've never ever heard of drug users, casino players and many many other interesting things right?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"Civil rights guardrails are essential for consumer trust in a system that allows companies to collect and use personal data without consent," the legal group said in a statement.
When first proposed in April by US House Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the APRA was sold as a way to give all Americans meaningful data privacy protections, something many have sought for decades.
The lobbying organization in April said it wanted to avoid the creation of "a federal floor" that might "encourage states to pass more restrictive privacy laws."
"Moving forward without baseline civil rights protections would create blind spots and permit discriminatory data practices to remain undetected and unchallenged," said Ruiz.
"This was the one comprehensive privacy bill that had a real chance of passing and now Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal to appease right wing extremists," Greer opined to The Register.
By removing crucial civil rights language, lawmakers have turned it into a bill that effectively endorses privacy violations and discriminatory uses of personal data.
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The solution is apps and protocols that put the privacy in the hands of the user, not the hands of another entity which must be "regulated" by legislative bodies that have been subject to regulatory capture. Decentralize and distribute power. Use P2P/decentralized platforms like lemmy, mastodon, nostr, freenet, etc.