Privacy News US privacy law is on the horizon

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Lawmakers want to draw the roadmap for privacy legislation for decades to come, and Silicon Valley is giving them some directions.
The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is holding a hearing Wednesday to look at how lawmakers can protect consumer privacy. In opening statements from representatives of AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and Charter Communications, the tech companies plan to tell lawmakers how they collect data and how regulations should play out.

A key part of the opening statements is calling for lawmakers to pre-empt state privacy laws, creating a federal bill that would overwrite any actions taken by state lawmakers. The companies are expected to explain their approaches to privacy and help Congress craft a federal privacy law "without hurting innovation," Sen. John Thune, the committee's chairman and a Republican from South Dakota, said in a statement. Privacy advocates are concerned, however, that the tech giants will use their influence to sway legislation in their favor.

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In opening statements from representatives of AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and Charter Communications
Pretty much all the shady companies who collect data, so whatever they coming up with, won't be protecting anyone's privacy.
Privacy advocates are concerned, however, that the tech giants will use their influence to sway legislation in their favor.
I'm among them, there's no privacy coming out of this.
 

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SO even less privacy in the future and there is nothing legally we the people can do about it? This does not sound very good for the public if all these companies are for this "law". Maybe just maybe though this might be good.
 

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So another words the track records of these companies for privacy makes a mockery of these so called laws. The EFF is also not in these discussions which makes these proceedings fairly worrying.

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The tech guys are really worried that they will have to tailor their platforms to comply with individual states, understandably, and they especially don't want California writing the law that other states may adopt so their going to have to give Congress a lot more than they had hoped, that's how I see it anyway.
 

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Privacy is gone. At best you can VPN, and use ad blocking/tracker blocking. The best way to remain private, is to never real info online. Don't ever use your real name, address, phone number etc. Keep anything involving money on a seperate machine and IP address. So the privacy invading corporate fat cats can get false info from the fake info and at the same time your real identity is safe.
 
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