I remain deeply skeptical.
Well anything is better than nothing. (Unless it is a surveillance bill)
In the US passing misleading bills is practically a sport for politicians.
And sometimes they are even passed at crazy hours like 1:00 am to avoid scrutiny
I don’t trust the government to do anything right at this point.
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.
There is absolutely no reason they can’t pass a federal law and then still allow states to have a more restrictive law. It is stupid to add a preemption barring more stringent laws.
But really no laws are strict enough against data harvesting companies.
Republicans and bought and paid for democrats. That’s the reason. We’re never getting a federal privacy bill with bipartisan support unless it’s preemptive of stronger state law. It’s a shit deal and that industry likes it should tell you everything you need to know
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.
Downvoted because the link doesn’t work
Doesn’t load for me
That and just copy the article text into the Lemmy post ffs
Yes, it would be great if people linked to source, then gave the archive link
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
