The tentative deal is expected to broker a compromise between congressional Democrats and Republicans by preempting state data protection laws
We’ll have to wait and see what the real bill looks like, but this would literally be worse than nothing.
I can’t tell you how encouraging it is to see this. Yes, absolutely. Preemption of state laws would be disastrous. I can not fathom why, while states are actually passing privacy laws (hello all you amazing data broker laws coming online esp in CA) we would want to make sure the only entities that can legislate privacy into the future are congress. It’s fucking madness.
It’s not worse than nothing for those of us stuck in backward ass Red states
Not necessarily. Since it’s not always easy to tell which state someone is in, you can end up benefiting from other states’ privacy laws.
Heck, because of the european gdpr, Americans can often opt out of cookies on most websites, even without any US privacy legislation.
I'm a liberal WA resident, and there's entirely too much influence here by big tech for me to trust national legislation regarding privacy baselines coming from legilators based within my state.
This is the sort of area where I'd like to see legislation forged from a partnership between a fiercely left-leaning state that supports individual rights (OR? MA?) and a similar libertarian-leaning right-wing state that shares similar beliefs on individual liberties (WY? MT?).
Each day the US doesn't have a GDPR equivalent, it strays further from the light.
The GDPR is actually a little heavy handed in my option. However beggers can't be choosers
I don't trust the government to do anything right at this point.
Congress is informed by the NSA. Can't see how the NSA could have any bias.
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Yes, it would be great if people linked to source, then gave the archive link
That and just copy the article text into the Lemmy post ffs
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