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We’ll have to wait and see what the real bill looks like, but this would literally be worse than nothing.
They could bring back some old surveillance legislation
Funny that you think it went away
Some of it did
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.