No Federal Privacy Law Will Make it in the US This Year

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/10/03/no-federal-privacy-law-will-make-it-in-the-us-this-year-sources-say/

You know about that one, much-hemmed-and-hawed-over, GDPR-ish, national, US privacy law? The one we don’t have? The lack of which means the country’s data privacy landscape is made up of a crazy quilt of state laws?Not happening. Not this year.

In spite of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) marching down to Capitol Hill to beat the drum for a unified federal privacy law (and more regulatory powers to enforce it), and in spite of both the House and Senate holding hearings on privacy legislation, transparency about how data is collected and shared, and the stiffening of penalties for data-handling violations, the US is not likely to see an online privacy bill come before Congress this year.

In lieu of a federal law – the one we’re not getting this year because nobody can agree on what it should do – the CCPA might turn into the ipso facto privacy rule of the land. Tech companies are terrified that it’s going to be strict, and it’s going to be expensive for all the companies that slurp up consumer data to track us, market at us and profit from selling our data …Or which screw up by fumbling that data, or which quietly pickpocket that data, as the case may be.

 

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Of course it won't.

 

[Burrito]

Privacy Law in the US is F'ed for This Year

Yes, in our (the US) damaged version of democracy right now, where corporate interests trump the people's interests, there is little possibility for something to quickly happen.

I mean.... who are we... the people... to rush the corporate class in making sure that they are not unduly put upon.